Deaths in May 2010
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Deaths in 2010
Deaths in 2010
The following is a list of notable deaths in 2010. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:* Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference, language of reference if not English....

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Deaths in December 2009
Deaths in 2009 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2009.-31:...

 - January
Deaths in January 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2010.-31:...

 - February
Deaths in February 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2010.-28:*Martin Benson, 91, British stage actor....

 - March - April
Deaths in April 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2010.-30:...

 - May - June
Deaths in June 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December – →The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2010.-30:* Alf Carretta, 93, British vocalist ....

 - July
Deaths in July 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December – →The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2010.-31:...

 - August
Deaths in August 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December – →The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2010.-31:*Vance Bourjaily, 87, American novelist....

 - September
Deaths in September 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December – →The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2010.-30:...

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Deaths in October 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December – →The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2010.-31:...

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Deaths in November 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December – →The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2010.-30:...

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Deaths in December 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December – →The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2010.-31:...

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Deaths in January 2011
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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2010.

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  • İbrahim Bilgen
    İbrahim Bilgen
    İbrahim Bilgen was a Turkish politician, electrical engineer and activist. He was born in Batman, Turkey and killed by the Israeli armed forces in the Gaza flotilla raid.Bilgen's family migrated to Turkey from Mosul, Iraq...

    , 61, Turkish
    Turkey
    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

     politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

     and engineer
    Engineer
    An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, machines and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality,...

    , Gaza flotilla raid
    Gaza flotilla raid
    The Gaza flotilla raid was a military operation by Israel against six ships of the "Gaza Freedom Flotilla" on 31 May 2010 in international waters of the Mediterranean Sea...

     participant. http://arabnews.com/world/article60825.ece
  • Louise Bourgeois
    Louise Bourgeois
    Louise Joséphine Bourgeois , was a renowned French-American artist and sculptor, best known for her contributions to both modern and contemporary art, and for her spider structures, titled Maman, which resulted in her being nicknamed the Spiderwoman...

    , 98, French
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

    -born American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     artist
    Artist
    An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

     and sculptor
    Sculpture
    Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/arts/design/01bourgeois.html
  • Uzra Butt
    Uzra Butt
    Uzra Butt was a theatre personality of the Indian sub-continent, who moved to Pakistan in 1964. She was the sister of theatre and Bollywood film actress Zohra Segal, who, unlike her, lived in India....

    , 93, India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

    n-born Pakistan
    Pakistan
    Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

    i actress, after long illness. http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_theatre-actress-uzra-butt-sister-of-zohra-sehgal-dies-at-93_1390877
  • Emil Clade
    Emil Clade
    Emil Josef Clade was a Luftwaffe fighter ace in World War II, and figured in German civilian aviation after the war...

    , 94, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     Luftwaffe
    Luftwaffe
    Luftwaffe is a generic German term for an air force. It is also the official name for two of the four historic German air forces, the Wehrmacht air arm founded in 1935 and disbanded in 1946; and the current Bundeswehr air arm founded in 1956....

     fighter ace
    Flying ace
    A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The actual number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an "ace" has varied, but is usually considered to be five or more...

    . http://www.aviationartprints.com/aircraft_aces.php?PilotID=3770 (exact date of death unknown)
  • Furkan Doğan
    Furkan Doğan
    Furkan Doğan was a Turkish American who was residing in Turkey permanently. He was the youngest person killed on MV Mavi Marmara ship, in the Gaza flotilla raid and became a political symbol after his death...

    , 19, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     student, Gaza flotilla raid
    Gaza flotilla raid
    The Gaza flotilla raid was a military operation by Israel against six ships of the "Gaza Freedom Flotilla" on 31 May 2010 in international waters of the Mediterranean Sea...

     participant. http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748704080104575286912377868890.html
  • Brian Duffy
    Brian Duffy (photographer)
    Brian Duffy was a celebrated English photographer and film producer, best remembered for his fashion photography of the 1960s and 1970s and his creation of the iconic "Aladdin Sane" image for David Bowie.-Early life:...

    , 76, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     photographer, degenerative
    Degenerative disease
    A degenerative disease, also called neurodegenerative disease, is a disease in which the function or structure of the affected tissues or organs will progressively deteriorate over time, whether due to normal bodily wear or lifestyle choices such as exercise or eating habits...

     lung disease. http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/1652610/celebrated-british-photographer-brian-duffy-died
  • William A. Fraker
    William A. Fraker
    William Ashman Fraker, A.S.C., B.S.C. was a cinematographer, film director, and producer. He has been nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography. In 2000, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers honoring his career...

    , 86, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     cinematographer
    Cinematographer
    A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image...

    , cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/02/local/la-me-william-fraker-20100602
  • Chris Haney
    Chris Haney (Trivial Pursuit)
    Chris Haney was a Canadian journalist and co-creator of the Trivial Pursuit board game with Scott Abbott.-Early Life:...

    , 59, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     co-inventor
    Inventor (patent)
    In patent law, an inventor is the person, or persons in United States patent law, who contribute to the claims of a patentable invention. In some patent law frameworks, however, such as in the European Patent Convention and its case law, no explicit, accurate definition of who exactly is an...

     of Trivial Pursuit
    Trivial Pursuit
    Trivial Pursuit is a board game in which progress is determined by a player's ability to answer general knowledge and popular culture questions. The game was created in 1979 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, by Canadian Chris Haney, a photo editor for Montreal's The Gazette and Scott Abbott, a sports...

    , after long illness. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2010/05/31/mtl-trivial-pursuit-co-founder-dies.html
  • Rubén Juárez
    Rubén Juárez
    Rubén Juárez was an Argentine bandoneonist and singer-songwriter of tango. Juárez studied the bandoneón from the age of six. In 1956 he entered in the Youth Orchestra of Club Atlético Independiente....

    , 62, Argentine
    Argentina
    Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

     singer-songwriter
    Singer-songwriter
    Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

     and bandoneón
    Bandoneón
    The bandoneón is a type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina and Uruguay. It plays an essential role in the orquesta típica, the tango orchestra...

    ist, prostate cancer
    Prostate cancer
    Prostate cancer is a form of cancer that develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. Most prostate cancers are slow growing; however, there are cases of aggressive prostate cancers. The cancer cells may metastasize from the prostate to other parts of the body, particularly...

    . http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=357832&CategoryId=13003
  • Cevdet Kılıçlar
    Cevdet Kılıçlar
    Cevdet Kılıçlar was a Turkish journalist and photographer from Kayseri. He had been a correspondent of the Islamist daily newspaper Anadolu'da Vakit. He was an aid worker and responsible for website of The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief...

    , 38, Turkish
    Turkey
    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

     journalist
    Journalist
    A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

     and photographer, Gaza flotilla raid
    Gaza flotilla raid
    The Gaza flotilla raid was a military operation by Israel against six ships of the "Gaza Freedom Flotilla" on 31 May 2010 in international waters of the Mediterranean Sea...

     participant. http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=30563&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
  • Benjamin Lees
    Benjamin Lees
    Benjamin Lees was a contemporary U.S. composer of Art music, born in Harbin, China, raised in San Francisco and lived in Palm Springs, California.-Early life:...

    , 86, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     composer
    Composer
    A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

     of classical music, heart failure. http://www.sequenza21.com/2010/06/benjamin-lees-86/
  • Saeed al-Masri
    Saeed al-Masri
    Mustafa Ahmed Muhammad Uthman Abu al-Yazid , better known as Saeed al-Masri or simply al-Masri , was an Egyptian who was alleged to have acted as the financial chief for al-Qaeda...

    , 54, Egypt
    Egypt
    Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

    ian member of al-Qaeda
    Al-Qaeda
    Al-Qaeda is a global broad-based militant Islamist terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden sometime between August 1988 and late 1989. It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad...

    , drone attack. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/10200712.stm
  • Merata Mita
    Merata Mita
    Merata Mita, CNZM was a significant filmmaker in New Zealand as well as a key figure in the growth of the Māori screen industry. Mita was from the Māori tribes of Ngāti Pikiao and Ngāi Te Rangi.-Background:...

    , 68, New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

     filmmaker. http://www.3news.co.nz/Pioneering-Kiwi-filmmaker-Merata-Mita-dies-/tabid/418/articleID/158482/Default.aspx
  • Basilio Santiago Romero
    Basilio Santiago Romero
    Basilio Santiago Romero served as the third Comptroller of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.Appointed by Governor Luis A...

    , 82, Puerto Rican
    Puerto Rico
    Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

     politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , Comptroller
    Comptroller of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
    The Comptroller of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is a constitutionally-created office charged with carrying out post-audits of the use of public funds in Puerto Rico...

     (1971–1977). http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news03.php?nt_id=43782&ct_id=1
  • Çetin Topçuoğlu
    Çetin Topçuoğlu
    Çetin Topçuoglu was a former Turkish taekwondo athlete.Çetin Topçuoglu was a Turkey and European taekwondo champion...

    , 54, Turkish
    Turkey
    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

     taekwondo
    Taekwondo
    Taekwondo is a Korean martial art and the national sport of South Korea. In Korean, tae means "to strike or break with foot"; kwon means "to strike or break with fist"; and do means "way", "method", or "path"...

     champion and coach, Gaza flotilla raid
    Gaza flotilla raid
    The Gaza flotilla raid was a military operation by Israel against six ships of the "Gaza Freedom Flotilla" on 31 May 2010 in international waters of the Mediterranean Sea...

     participant. http://arabnews.com/world/article60825.ece
  • Jack Volrich
    Jack Volrich
    Jack Volrich was born in Anyox, British Columbia and was the 33rd mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 1977 to 1980. Prior to this, he practiced law and served as an alderman on the Vancouver City Council....

    , 82, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     politician, Mayor of Vancouver (1976–1980), kidney failure. http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Populist+mayor+Vancouver+turbulent+times/3117068/story.html
  • Donald Windham
    Donald Windham
    Donald Windham was an American novelist and memoirist. He is perhaps best known for his close friendships with Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Windham moved with his then-boyfriend Fred Melton, an artist, to New York City in 1939. Windham collaborated with Williams...

    , 89, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     novelist. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/04/arts/04windham.html

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  • Hanji Aoki
    Hanji Aoki
    was a Japanese sports official.He hailed from Chiba Prefecture. He was an active shot putter in his younger days, and became Japanese champion in 1938. He was president of the Japanese Olympic Committee from 1969 to 1973 and the Japan Association of Athletics Federations from 1975 to 1999, and vice...

    , 94, Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

    ese sports official, heart failure. http://www.iaaf.org/aboutiaaf/news/newsid=56910.html
  • Colm Callan
    Colm Callan
    Colm Patrick Callan was an Irish rugby player who played as a second-row forward for Lansdowne Football Club and was part of the Irish rugby team from 1947 to 1949, winning 10 caps....

    , 87, Irish
    Republic of Ireland
    Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

     rugby
    Rugby union
    Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

     player (1948 Grand Slam
    Grand Slam (Rugby Union)
    In rugby union, a Grand Slam occurs when one team in the Six Nations Championship manages to beat all the others during one year's competition...

    ), after long illness. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2010/0602/1224271675859.html
  • Yuri Chesnokov
    Yuri Chesnokov (volleyball)
    Yuri Borisovich Chesnokov was a Russian volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1964 Summer Olympics. He was born in Moscow....

    , 77, Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n Olympic
    Olympic Games
    The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

     gold medal-winning (1964
    1964 Summer Olympics
    The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan in 1964. Tokyo had been awarded with the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honor was subsequently passed to Helsinki because of Japan's...

    ) volleyball
    Volleyball
    Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

     player. http://www.volley.ru/news/510/ (Russian)
  • Arie Eliav, 88, Israel
    Israel
    The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

    i politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , after long illness. http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/prominent-politician-and-left-wing-activist-aryeh-eliav-dies-at-age-88-1.293076
  • Dame Pat Evison
    Pat Evison
    Dame Helen June Patricia Evison, DBE , known as Pat Evison, was a New Zealand actress.-Early life and education:...

    , 85, New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

     actress. http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/newsdetail1.asp?storyID=176357
  • Bruce Harris
    Bruce Harris
    Bruce Harris OBE was the Executive Director of Casa Alianza, a charity whose aims are the rehabilitation and the defence of children....

    , 55, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     executive director
    Executive director
    Executive director is a term sometimes applied to the chief executive officer or managing director of an organization, company, or corporation. It is widely used in North American non-profit organizations, though in recent decades many U.S. nonprofits have adopted the title "President/CEO"...

     of Casa Alianza
    Casa Alianza
    Casa Alianza is an international not for profit organisation and the Latin American branch of Covenant House. It is a charity and NGO whose aims are the rehabilitation and the defence of street children. It was first set up in Guatemala in 1981, then in both Honduras and Mexico in 1986, then in...

     (1989–2004), pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer refers to a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas. The most common type of pancreatic cancer, accounting for 95% of these tumors is adenocarcinoma, which arises within the exocrine component of the pancreas. A minority arises from the islet cells and is classified as a...

    . http://hondurasweekly.com/editorial/2677-bruce-harris-1955-2010-r-i-p
  • Lester Johnson
    Lester Johnson (artist)
    Lester Johnson was an American artist.As a figurative expressionist and member of the Second Generation of the New York School, painter Lester Johnson remained dedicated to the human figure as means of expression through the many stylistic changes of his oeuvre.In New York, Johnson exhibited at...

    , 91, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     figurative expressionist
    New York Figurative Expressionism
    New York Figurative Expressionism of the 1950s represented a trend where "diverse New York artists countered the prevailing abstract mode to work with the figure."-Categories of figurative expressionist modes:...

     artist
    Artist
    An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/09/arts/design/09johnson.html
  • Klaus Kandaouroff
    Klaus Kandaouroff
    Klaus Kandaouroff better known by his nickname "Hühner-Klaus" , was a German businessman, self-made millionaire and philanthropist. He was owner of several egg, venison and poultry wholesalers. He also operated a luxury hotel and several restaurants...

    , 80, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     businessman and philanthropist
    Philanthropy
    Philanthropy etymologically means "the love of humanity"—love in the sense of caring for, nourishing, developing, or enhancing; humanity in the sense of "what it is to be human," or "human potential." In modern practical terms, it is "private initiatives for public good, focusing on quality of...

    , shot
    Ballistic trauma
    The term ballistic trauma refers to a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions. The most common forms of ballistic trauma stem from firearms used in armed conflicts, civilian sporting and recreational pursuits, and criminal activity.-Destructive effects:The degree...

    . http://www.ruhrnachrichten.de/lokales/haltern/lokalnachrichten/art900,923346 (German)
  • Peter Orlovsky
    Peter Orlovsky
    Peter Anton Orlovsky was an American poet.-Life and work:Orlovsky was born in the Lower East Side of New York City, the son of Katherine and Oleg Orlovsky, a Russian immigrant. He was raised in poverty and was forced to drop out of Newtown High School in his senior year so he could support his...

    , 76, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

    , lung cancer
    Lung cancer
    Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary...

    . http://www.pattismith.net/orlovsky.html
  • Joan Rhodes
    Joan Rhodes
    Joan Rhodes was a London-born British performer, wrestler, stuntwoman and strongwoman. Born into poverty in London, she and her siblings were deserted by their parents. Following unhappy spells in the workhouse and with an aunt, she left home at 14...

    , 89, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     actress and entertainer. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/7798678/Joan-Rhodes.html
  • Jeanne Robinson
    Jeanne Robinson
    Jeanne Robinson was an American-born Canadian dancer, choreographer, teacher and co-author of three award-winning science fiction novels, The Stardance Saga...

    , 62, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     dancer and novelist, wife of Spider Robinson
    Spider Robinson
    Spider Robinson is an American-born Canadian Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction author.- Biography :Born in the Bronx, New York City, Robinson attended Catholic high school, spending his junior year in a seminary, followed by two years in a Catholic college, and five years at the State...

    , biliary tract cancer. http://www.sfsite.com/news/2010/05/31/obituary-jeanne-robinson/
  • Dufferin Roblin
    Dufferin Roblin
    Dufferin "Duff" Roblin, PC, CC, OM was a Canadian businessman and politician. Known as "Duff," he served as the 14th Premier of Manitoba from 1958 to 1967. Roblin was appointed to the Canadian Senate on the advice of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. In the government of Brian Mulroney, he served as...

    , 92, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , Premier of Manitoba
    Premier of Manitoba
    The Premier of Manitoba is the first minister for the Canadian province of Manitoba. He or she is the province's head of government and de facto chief executive. Until the early 1970s, the title "Prime Minister of Manitoba" was used frequently. Afterwards, the word Premier, derived from the French...

     (1958–1967), Senator (1978–1992). http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Province-loses-tremendous-premier-95241979.html
  • Vera Beaudin Saeedpour
    Vera Beaudin Saeedpour
    Vera Beaudin Saeedpour , was an American researcher and scholar who specialized in the study of Kurdish people. She founded the Kurdish Heritage Foundation of America, the first library and museum in the United States dedicated to the subject...

    , 80, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     Kurdish
    Kurdish people
    The Kurdish people, or Kurds , are an Iranian people native to the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey...

     scholar, founder of the Kurdish Heritage Foundation of America
    Kurdish Heritage Foundation of America
    Kurdish Heritage Foundation of America, also known as Kurdish Library and Museum, is a cultural organization based in Brooklyn, New York. It collects items related to Kurdish culture, literature and history. Its library contains around 2,000 volumes on Kurdish-related subjects...

    , heart attack. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/nyregion/08saeedpour.html
  • Brian Turner
    Brian Turner (Australian footballer)
    Brian Joseph Turner was an Australian association football player.-Club career:Turner began his football career with New Lambton in the Northern New South Wales State League. In 1969 he spent time with Tottenham in England, though he didn't play a first team match...

    , 58, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n footballer, cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.theherald.com.au/news/local/sport/football-soccer/cancer-claims-pioneer-turner/1846619.aspx
  • Rudi Vis
    Rudi Vis
    Rudolf Jan Vis was a Dutch-born British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Finchley and Golders Green from 1997 to 2010.-Early life:...

    , 69, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , MP for Finchley and Golders Green (1997–2010), cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.times-series.co.uk/news/8194885.Former_Labour_MP_dies_after_battling_with_cancer/
  • Tobi Wong
    Tobi Wong
    Donald Tobias Wong was a Canadian born designer and artist. His work had been heavily influenced by subversive art movements including Dada and Fluxus, and having received numerous cease and desist orders, Wong become known for appropriating work by others...

    , 35, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     designer
    Designer
    A designer is a person who designs. More formally, a designer is an agent that "specifies the structural properties of a design object". In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, such as consumer products, processes, laws, games and graphics, is referred to as a...

    , suicide
    Suicide
    Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/arts/design/03wong.html
  • Ali-Ollie Woodson
    Ali-Ollie Woodson
    Ali-Ollie Woodson was an American R&B singer, songwriter, keyboardist and occasional actor. He was known for singing with The Temptations beginning in 1984, and also worked with Aretha Franklin and Bill Pinkney....

    , 58, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     soul singer
    Soul music
    Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

     (The Temptations
    The Temptations
    The Temptations is an American vocal group having achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, R&B, doo-wop, funk, disco, soul, and adult contemporary music.Formed in Detroit,...

    ), leukemia
    Leukemia
    Leukemia or leukaemia is a type of cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal increase of immature white blood cells called "blasts". Leukemia is a broad term covering a spectrum of diseases...

    . http://www.detnews.com/article/20100531/ENT04/5310358/1424/ENT04/Former-lead-Temptations-singer-Ali-Woodson-dies

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  • Adrian Freeman
    Adrian Freeman
    Adrian Freeman was an Irish sportsperson from Tooreen, Ballyhaunis, County Mayo. He played Gaelic football and hurling....

    , 24, Irish
    Republic of Ireland
    Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

     hurler
    Hurling
    Hurling is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar. Hurling is the national game of Ireland. The game has prehistoric origins, has been played for at least 3,000 years, and...

     (Mayo
    Mayo GAA
    The Mayo County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Mayo GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Mayo and the Mayo inter-county teams.-History:...

    ), traffic collision. http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/championship/2010/0529/freemana.html
  • Dennis Hopper
    Dennis Hopper
    Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant...

    , 74, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

     (Speed, Blue Velvet) and film director
    Film director
    A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

     (Easy Rider
    Easy Rider
    Easy Rider is a 1969 American road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. It tells the story of two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South with the aim of achieving freedom...

    ), prostate cancer
    Prostate cancer
    Prostate cancer is a form of cancer that develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. Most prostate cancers are slow growing; however, there are cases of aggressive prostate cancers. The cancer cells may metastasize from the prostate to other parts of the body, particularly...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/movies/30hopper.html?src=me
  • Paul Müller
    Paul Müller (biologist)
    Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Paul Müller was a German professor of biology in Trier .. He died in Saarland on 29 May 2010....

    , 69, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     biologist
    Biologist
    A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of life. Typically biologists study organisms and their relationship to their environment. Biologists involved in basic research attempt to discover underlying mechanisms that govern how organisms work...

    . http://www.saarjaeger.de/news.php?id=83 (German)
  • Jeriome Robertson
    Jeriome Robertson
    Jeriome Paul Robertson was an American left-handed baseball pitcher who played three seasons in Major League Baseball for the Houston Astros and Cleveland Indians...

    , 33, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     baseball
    Baseball
    Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

     player (Houston Astros
    Houston Astros
    The Houston Astros are a Major League Baseball team located in Houston, Texas. They are a member of the National League Central division. The Astros are expected to join the American League West division in 2013. Since , they have played their home games at Minute Maid Park, known as Enron Field...

    , Cleveland Indians
    Cleveland Indians
    The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since , they have played in Progressive Field. The team's spring training facility is in Goodyear, Arizona...

    ), motorcycle collision. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bb/7030765.html
  • Donald L. Staheli
    Donald L. Staheli
    Donald Lafayette Staheli was an American business executive and was a general authority in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1997 to 2006....

    , 78, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     Mormon
    Mormon
    The term Mormon most commonly denotes an adherent, practitioner, follower, or constituent of Mormonism, which is the largest branch of the Latter Day Saint movement in restorationist Christianity...

     leader, general authority
    General authority
    In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , a general authority is a member of certain leadership organizations who are given administrative and ecclesiastical authority over the church...

     of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700036191/Draper-Temple-president-dies.html
  • Randolph Stow
    Randolph Stow
    Julian Randolph Stow was an Australian writer.-Life:Born in Geraldton, Western Australia, Randolph Stow attended Guildford Grammar School and the University of Western Australia. He lectured in English Literature at the University of Adelaide, the University of Western Australia and the...

    , 74, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

    , liver cancer
    Liver cancer
    Liver tumors or hepatic tumors are tumors or growths on or in the liver . Several distinct types of tumors can develop in the liver because the liver is made up of various cell types. These growths can be benign or malignant...

    . http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/25849/20100531/randolph-stow-dies.htm

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  • Eddie Barth
    Eddie Barth
    Eddie Barth was an American actor and voiceover artist. Barth earned the nickname, Mr. Gravel, for his raspy vocals in his voiceover work.-Early life:...

    , 78, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

     (Simon & Simon
    Simon & Simon
    Simon & Simon is an American detective television series starring Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker.-History:The original 1978 pilot called Pirate's Key was set in Florida...

    ) and voice actor, heart failure. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i6f1a697eee327ba06479f5e48e173b31?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thr%2Ffilm+%28The+Hollywood+Reporter+-+Film%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
  • Henry Bramwell
    Henry Bramwell
    Henry Bramwell was a United States federal judge.Bramwell was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was in the United States Army from 1941 to 1945, and then received an LL.B. from Brooklyn Law School in 1948. He was an assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York from 1953 to 1961...

    , 90, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     federal judge
    United States federal judge
    In the United States, the title of federal judge usually means a judge appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate in accordance with Article II of the United States Constitution....

    . http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/05/30/2010-05-30_sun_530_death_notices.html
  • Slim Bryant, 101, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     country
    Country music
    Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

     singer-songwriter
    Singer-songwriter
    Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

    . http://kdka.com/local/Slim.bryant.died.2.1722067.html
  • Gary Coleman
    Gary Coleman
    Gary Wayne Coleman was an American actor, known for his childhood role as Arnold Jackson in the American sitcom Diff'rent Strokes and for his small stature as an adult. He was described in the 1980s as "one of television's most promising stars". After a successful childhood acting career, Coleman...

    , 42, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

     (Diff'rent Strokes
    Diff'rent Strokes
    Diff'rent Strokes is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from November 3, 1978 to May 4, 1985, and on ABC from September 27, 1985 to March 7, 1986...

    ), intracranial hemorrhage
    Intracranial hemorrhage
    An intracranial hemorrhage is a hemorrhage, or bleeding, within the skull.-Causes:Intracranial bleeding occurs when a blood vessel within the skull is ruptured or leaks. It can result from physical trauma or nontraumatic causes such as a ruptured aneurysm...

    . http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/37386129/ns/today-entertainment/
  • Sir Hugh Ford
    Hugh Ford (engineer)
    Sir Hugh Ford FREng FRS was a British engineer. He was Professor of Applied Mechanics at Imperial College London from 1951 to 1978....

    , 96, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     engineer
    Engineer
    An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, machines and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality,...

     http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/technology-obituaries/7852327/Professor-Sir-Hugh-Ford.html
  • Ted Innes
    Ted Innes
    Urquhart Edward "Ted" Innes was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne, he was the Victorian Secretary and National President of the Electrical Trades Union before entering politics...

    , 85, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , member of the Australian House of Representatives
    Australian House of Representatives
    The House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia; it is the lower house; the upper house is the Senate. Members of Parliament serve for terms of approximately three years....

     (1972–1983). http://www.openaustralia.org/debates/?id=2010-06-01.3.2
  • Osama Anwar Okasha
    Osama Anwar Okasha
    Osama Anwar Okasha was an Egyptian screenwriter and journalist, who wrote weekly for El-Ahram newspaper. He is famous for writing some of the most popular series on Egyptian television, such as Layali el Helmeyya and El Shahd wel Demou, which are popular in Egypt and all across the Middle East.His...

    , 68, Egypt
    Egypt
    Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

    ian screenwriter
    Screenwriter
    Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

     and journalist
    Journalist
    A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

    . http://gulfnews.com/news/region/egypt/egypt-s-noted-tv-personality-okasha-dies-1.633784
  • David Sanger
    David Sanger (organist)
    David John Sanger was a concert organist, professor and president of the Royal College of Organists.- Biography :Sanger was educated at Eltham College and the Royal Academy of Music...

    , 63, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     organist
    Organist
    An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ. An organist may play solo organ works, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumental soloists...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/10187964.stm
  • Leslie Scalapino
    Leslie Scalapino
    Leslie Scalapino was a United States poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and editor, sometimes grouped in with the Language poets, though she felt closely tied to the Beat poets. A longtime resident of California's Bay Area, she earned an M.A. in English from the University of...

    , 65, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

    , publisher and playwright
    Playwright
    A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

    . http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/scalapino/obit.html

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  • John William Finn
    John William Finn
    John William Finn was a sailor in the United States Navy who, as a chief petty officer, received the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II...

    , 100, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     naval officer, oldest living Medal of Honor
    Medal of Honor
    The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...

     recipient. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/may/27/john-finn-hero-at-pearl-harbor-dies-at-100/
  • Peter J. Hall
    Peter J. Hall
    Peter John Hall , was a British-born American costume designer who spent most of his career as costumer for the Dallas Opera, in addition to his work for Covent Garden, La Scala, the Old Vic and the Vienna State Opera, as well as productions in New York City for the American Ballet Theater, the...

    , 84, British-born
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     costume designer
    Costume Designer
    A costume designer or costume mistress/master is a person whose responsibility is to design costumes for a film or stage production. He or she is considered an important part of the "production team", working alongside the director, scenic and lighting designers as well as the sound designer. The...

     (Dallas Opera
    Dallas Opera
    The Dallas Opera is an opera company located in Dallas, Texas . The company was founded in 1957 as the Dallas Civic Opera by Laurence Kelly and Nicolà Rescigno, both of whom had been active with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the first as administrator, the second as artistic director.-The company's...

    ). http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/arts/dance/10hall.html
  • Yvonne Howell
    Yvonne Howell
    Yvonne Howell was an actress whose career began in silent films. Her mother was vaudeville performer and silent actress Alice Howell ....

    , 104, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     actress. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings-20100608,0,3302145.story
  • Jackson Kaujeua
    Jackson Kaujeua
    Jackson Kaujeua was a Namibian musician, composer and gospel singer, and a veteran of the Namibian struggle for independence. He sang in various Namibian languages including Afrikaans and English....

    , 56, Namibia
    Namibia
    Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...

    n musician
    Musician
    A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

    , composer
    Composer
    A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

     and gospel
    Gospel music
    Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....

     singer, kidney disease. http://www.southerntimesafrica.com/article.php?title=Jackson_Kaujeua-_Namibia's_Gentle_Giant%3A_A_Tribute__&id=4211&sid=24148c784c6ff03a3273083d1db3b42e
  • Peter Keefe
    Peter Keefe
    Peter Eugene Keefe was an American television producer best known for creating the popular series Voltron...

    , 57, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     animation
    Animation
    Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

     producer
    Television producer
    The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...

     and executive (Voltron
    Voltron
    Voltron is the titular super robot of an anime series that features a team of young pilots, known as the Voltron Force. The team’s individual vehicles join together to form the giant super robot, with which they defend the galaxy from evil...

    , Denver, the Last Dinosaur
    Denver, the Last Dinosaur
    Denver, the Last Dinosaur is a U.S.-French cartoon for children originally released in 1988 by World Events Productions . It was nationally syndicated throughout the United States in 1988 with reruns airing until 1990...

    ), throat cancer. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3if3584cb6d538b8e118c5f9a0c7f207ba
  • Roman Yefimovich Kozak
    Roman Yefimovich Kozak
    Roman Yefimovich Kozak was a Russian theatre actor and director.Roman Kozak was married to choreographer Alla Sigalova.- References :...

    , 52, Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n theatre actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

     and director, after long illness. http://rian.ru/culture/20100528/239580855.html (Russian)
  • Payut Ngaokrachang
    Payut Ngaokrachang
    Payut Ngaokrachang was a Thai cartoonist and animator. He created Thai cinema's first cel-animated feature film, The Adventure of Sudsakorn.-Early life:...

    , 81, Thai
    Thailand
    Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

     cartoonist
    Cartoonist
    A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...

     and animator
    Animator
    An animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence; the images are called frames and key frames. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, video games, and the internet. Usually, an...

    . http://www.matichon.co.th/news_detail.php?newsid=1274971982&catid=08 (Thai)
  • Reg White, 72, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     Olympic
    Olympic Games
    The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

     gold medal-winning (1976
    1976 Summer Olympics
    The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1976. Montreal was awarded the rights to the 1976 Games on May 12, 1970, at the 69th IOC Session in Amsterdam, over the bids of Moscow and...

    ) sailor
    Sailor
    A sailor, mariner, or seaman is a person who navigates water-borne vessels or assists in their operation, maintenance, or service. The term can apply to professional mariners, military personnel, and recreational sailors as well as a plethora of other uses...

    . http://www.rya.org.uk/newsevents/news/Pages/RegWhite.aspx

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  • Leo Canjels
    Leo Canjels
    Leonard "Leo" Canjels was a Dutch international footballer who played for NAC Breda.-Club career:Canjels started playing football at Breda side VV Baronie. He made his debut for NAC in the 1956/1957 season and played seven years for the club before retiring...

    , 77, Dutch
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

     footballer. http://www.vi.nl/Nieuws-item/180892/Drievoudig-international-Leo-Canjels-overleden.htm (Dutch)
  • Jean Constantin
    Jean Constantin
    Jean Constantin was a well known Romanian comedianof Greek ethnicity.Constantin was born in Techirghiol and died in Constanţa.-Filmography:*Poker *Supravieţuitorul .... Limba*Roming ......

    , 82, Romania
    Romania
    Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

    n actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

    , natural causes
    Death by natural causes
    A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is one that is primarily attributed to natural agents: usually an illness or an internal malfunction of the body. For example, a person dying from complications from influenza or a heart attack ...

    . http://www.evz.ro/detalii/stiri/a-murit-jean-constantin-895975.html (Romanian)
  • Marie Corridon
    Marie Corridon
    Marie Mortell was an American swimmer and Olympic champion. Hailing from Norwalk, Connecticut, she competed at the 1948 Olympic Games in London, where she received a gold medal in 4×100 m freestyle relay.-References:...

    , 80, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     swimmer
    Swimming (sport)
    Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

    , gold medalist(1948 Summer Olympics
    1948 Summer Olympics
    The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in London, England, United Kingdom. After a 12-year hiatus because of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics since the 1936 Games in Berlin...

    ) . http://www.westport-news.com/news/article/MARIE-CORRIDON-MORTELL-504209.php
  • Jesse Hockett
    Jesse Hockett
    Jesse "The Rocket" Hockett was an American sprint car racer. He made his debut in 1998 and went on to win numerous events in the course of his career...

    , 26, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     sprint car racer
    Sprint car racing
    Sprint cars are high-powered race cars designed primarily for the purpose of running on short oval or circular dirt or paved tracks. Sprint car racing is popular in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa....

    , electrocution
    Electrocution
    Electrocution is a type of electric shock that, as determined by a stopped heart, can end life. Electrocution is frequently used to refer to any electric shock received but is technically incorrect; the choice of definition varies from dictionary to dictionary...

    . http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=369961
  • Art Linkletter
    Art Linkletter
    Arthur Gordon "Art" Linkletter was a Canadian-born American radio and television personality. He was the host of House Party, which ran on CBS radio and television for 25 years, and People Are Funny, on NBC radio-TV for 19 years...

    , 97, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

    -born American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     radio
    Radio personality
    A radio personality is a person with an on-air position in radio broadcasting. A radio personality can be someone who introduces and discusses various genres of music, hosts a talk radio show that may take calls from listeners, or someone whose primary responsibility is to give news, weather,...

     and television personality (House Party
    Art Linkletter's House Party
    House Party is an American radio daytime variety/talk show that aired on CBS Radio and on ABC Radio from January 15, 1945 to October 13, 1967...

    , People are Funny
    People Are Funny
    People are Funny is an American radio and television game show, created by John Guedel that remained popular throughout the 1940s. The program ran from 1942 to 1960. The program's stunts and audience participation were calculated to reveal the humorous side of human nature...

    ), natural causes
    Death by natural causes
    A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is one that is primarily attributed to natural agents: usually an illness or an internal malfunction of the body. For example, a person dying from complications from influenza or a heart attack ...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/arts/27linkletter.html
  • Judy Lynn
    Judy Lynn
    Judy Lynn Kelly , who performed as Judy Lynn and was born Judy Lynn Voiten, was an American country music singer and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Idaho in 1955....

    , 74, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     country music
    Country music
    Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

     singer, heart failure. http://www.wfpl.org/2010/05/28/country-singer-judy-lynn-dies-at-74/
  • Sir Christopher Moran
    Chris Moran
    Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Hugh "Chris" Moran, KCB, OBE, MVO, ADC, FRAeS , was a fast jet pilot and later a senior commander in the Royal Air Force...

    , 54, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     air force officer, Air Chief Marshal
    Air Chief Marshal
    Air chief marshal is a senior 4-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force...

     of RAF, suspected heart failure. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/7768799/RAFs-second-in-command-dies-during-triathlon.html
  • Kieran Phelan
    Kieran Phelan
    Kieran Phelan was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and member of Seanad Éireann on the Industrial and Commercial Panel....

    , 60, Irish
    Republic of Ireland
    Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

     politician, suspected heart attack. http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0526/phelank.html
  • Pat Stevens
    Pat Stevens
    Pat Stevens, also known as Patricia Stevens is an American actress and voice actor. She is perhaps best known for her role as Nurse Baker on M*A*S*H and her role as the second voice of the popular character Velma Dinkley during the same period .-Career:She voiced the character of Velma Dinkley...

    , 64, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     actress and voice actress
    Voice acting
    Voice acting is the art of providing voices for animated characters and radio and audio dramas and comedy, as well as doing voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides.Performers are called...

     (M*A*S*H, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo), breast cancer
    Breast cancer
    Breast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...

    . http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/telegram/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=143177763

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  • Alexander Belostenny
    Alexander Belostenny
    Alexander Mikhaylovich Belostenny was a Ukrainian basketball player. He was a member of the Soviet national team from 1977 to 1992, except for an absence during a single competition, EuroBasket 1987...

    , 51, Ukrainian
    Ukraine
    Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

     basketball
    Basketball
    Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

     player, lung cancer
    Lung cancer
    Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary...

    . http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/news/lateNews/arti.asp?newsid=40065
  • Clifford Grodd
    Clifford Grodd
    Clifford Grodd was an American clothier who served as president and chief executive of the Paul Stuart men's and women's clothing retailer....

    , 86, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     clothier
    Tailor
    A tailor is a person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.Although the term dates to the thirteenth century, tailor took on its modern sense in the late eighteenth century, and now refers to makers of men's and women's suits, coats, trousers,...

    , President and CEO of Paul Stuart
    Paul Stuart
    Paul Stuart is a men's and women's clothing store in the United States. Founded in 1938 in New York City, New York, USA, by haberdasher Ralph Ostrove, who named the company after his son Paul Stuart Ostrove...

    , cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/business/27grodd.html
  • Arthur Herzog
    Arthur Herzog
    Arthur Herzog was an American novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist, well known for his works of science fiction and true crime books.His novels The Swarm and Orca have been made into films...

    , 83, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/09/arts/09herzog.html
  • Alan Hickinbotham
    Alan Hickinbotham
    Alan David Hickinbotham AM was an Australian businessman and Australian rules football player and coach.-Biography:Hickinbotham was born on 9 December 1925 in Geelong, Victoria...

    , 84, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n football
    Australian rules football
    Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

     player and businessman
    Businessperson
    A businessperson is someone involved in a particular undertaking of activities for the purpose of generating revenue from a combination of human, financial, or physical capital. An entrepreneur is an example of a business person...

    . http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/26/2909879.htm
  • Michael H. Jordan
    Michael H. Jordan
    Michael H. Jordan was an American businessman. He has served as the Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo Worldwide Foods , Westinghouse Electric Corporation , CBS Corporation , and Electronic Data Systems .Jordan was born in Kansas City, Missouri, to the late Mary Virginia Witt and Hugh Franklin...

    , 73, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     business executive
    Executive officer
    An executive officer is generally a person responsible for running an organization, although the exact nature of the role varies depending on the organization.-Administrative law:...

    , complications
    Complication (medicine)
    Complication, in medicine, is an unfavorable evolution of a disease, a health condition or a medical treatment. The disease can become worse in its severity or show a higher number of signs, symptoms or new pathological changes, become widespread throughout the body or affect other organ systems. A...

     of cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/business/27jordan.html
  • Erih Koš
    Erih Koš
    Erih Koš was a Serbian writer and translator of Jewish origin. He was born in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary....

    , 97, Serbia
    Serbia
    Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

    n writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

     and translator
    Translation
    Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of...

    . http://www.naslovi.net/2010-05-25/b92/preminuo-erih-kos/1742660 (Serbian)
  • Silvius Magnago
    Silvius Magnago
    - Biography :Magnano was born in Merano. He was a trained lawyer, and lived all his life in Bolzano. He was chairman of the South Tyrolean People's Party and governor of the autonomous province of South Tyrol from 1960–1989....

    , 96, Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , Governor of South Tyrol
    South Tyrol
    South Tyrol , also known by its Italian name Alto Adige, is an autonomous province in northern Italy. It is one of the two autonomous provinces that make up the autonomous region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. The province has an area of and a total population of more than 500,000 inhabitants...

     (1960–1989). http://derstandard.at/1271377358384/Alt-Landeshauptmann-Magnago-verstorben (German)
  • Robert Muczynski
    Robert Muczynski
    Robert Muczynski was a contemporary American composer. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. Muczynski studied composition with Alexander Tcherepnin at DePaul University in the late 1940s...

    , 81, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     composer
    Composer
    A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

     of classical music
    Classical music
    Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

    . http://viewfromhere.typepad.com/the_view_from_here/2010/05/robert-muczynski-19292010-former-chicago-composer-whose-works-were-performed-worldwide.html
  • Siphiwo Ntshebe
    Siphiwo Ntshebe
    Siphiwo Ntshebe was a South African tenor opera singer. Former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela personally selected Ntshebe to perform at the opening ceremony for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in Johannesburg. Ntshebe died of meningitis on 25 May 2010, days before he was due to perform at the...

    , 35, South Africa
    South Africa
    The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

    n opera singer, meningitis
    Meningitis
    Meningitis is inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, known collectively as the meninges. The inflammation may be caused by infection with viruses, bacteria, or other microorganisms, and less commonly by certain drugs...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10162343.stm
  • Gabriel Vargas
    Gabriel Vargas
    Gabriel Bernal Vargas was a Mexican painter, artist and cartoonist, whose comic strip La Familia Burrón was created in 1937. This cartoon has been described as one of the most important in Mexican popular culture...

    , 95, Mexican
    Mexico
    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

     cartoonist
    Cartoonist
    A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...

    . http://laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=13003&ArticleId=357504
  • Jarvis Williams
    Jarvis Williams (American football)
    Jarvis Eric Williams, Sr. was a former American college and professional football player who was a defensive back in the National Football League for seven seasons during the 1980s and 1990s...

    , 45, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     football
    American football
    American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

     player (Miami Dolphins
    Miami Dolphins
    The Miami Dolphins are a Professional football team based in the Miami metropolitan area in Florida. The team is part of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

    , New York Giants
    New York Giants
    The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...

    ), heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/sports_college_uf/2010/05/former-florida-gators-great-jarvis-williams-dies-of-heart-attack.html

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  • Ray Alan
    Ray Alan
    Ray Alan was an English ventriloquist and television entertainer from the 1950s until the 1980s. He was associated primarily with the puppet Lord Charles and later also with the puppets Tich and Quackers.-Biography:...

    , 79, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     ventriloquist
    Ventriloquism
    Ventriloquism, or ventriloquy, is an act of stagecraft in which a person manipulates his or her voice so that it appears that the voice is coming from elsewhere, usually a puppeteered "dummy"...

    , respiratory failure
    Respiratory failure
    The term respiratory failure, in medicine, is used to describe inadequate gas exchange by the respiratory system, with the result that arterial oxygen and/or carbon dioxide levels cannot be maintained within their normal ranges. A drop in blood oxygenation is known as hypoxemia; a rise in arterial...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/7759164/Ventriloquist-Ray-Alan-dies.html
  • Virendra Bhatia
    Virendra Bhatia
    Shri Virendra Bhatia was a politician from the Samajwadi Party and a Member of the Parliament of India representing Uttar Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament....

    , 63, India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

    n politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , after short illness. http://netindian.in/news/2010/05/24/0006605/samajwadi-party-mp-virendra-bhatia-passes-away
  • Tapen Chatterjee
    Tapen Chatterjee
    Tapen Chatterjee was a Bengali actor from India who played several roles in Satyajit Ray's films, notably as Goopy Gyne in Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne , and its sequels Heerak Rajar Deshe and Goopy Bagha Phire Elo . Chatterjee died on 24 May 2010 at the age of 72...

    , 72, India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

    n actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

     (Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne
    Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne
    Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne , directed by the late Satyajit Ray and based on a story by his grandfather Upendra Kishore Ray, is a popular Bengali children's film. It is sometimes released in the English-speaking world as The Adventures Of Goopy And Bagha...

    ), cardiac arrest
    Cardiac arrest
    Cardiac arrest, is the cessation of normal circulation of the blood due to failure of the heart to contract effectively...

    . http://www.indiablooms.com/BollywoodDetailsPage/bollywoodDetails240510c.php
  • Maria di Gerlando
    Maria di Gerlando
    Maria di Gerlando was an American operatic soprano and voice teacher who was a leading performer at the New York City Opera from 1953-1969...

    , 84, American operatic soprano. http://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2010/9/Departments/Obituaries.html
  • Paul Gray, 38, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     heavy metal
    Heavy metal music
    Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

     bassist
    Bassist
    A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...

     (Slipknot
    Slipknot (band)
    Slipknot is an American heavy metal band from Des Moines, Iowa. Formed in 1995, the group was founded by percussionist Shawn Crahan and bassist Paul Gray...

    ), accidental fentanyl and morphine overdose. http://www.wkzo.com/news/articles/2010/jun/22/slipknot-bassist-died-of-accidental-overdose/
  • Alejandro López de Haro
    Alejandro López de Haro
    Alejandro López de Haro Ramirez. was a Venezuelan photographer, writer and stockbroker. He held a Bachelor of Science in business from Bryant College and an MBA in Finance from New York University....

    , 61, Venezuela
    Venezuela
    Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

    n photographer, writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

     and stock broker
    Stock broker
    A stock broker or stockbroker is a regulated professional broker who buys and sells shares and other securities through market makers or Agency Only Firms on behalf of investors...

    , complications from surgery. http://www.diariolasamericas.com/noticia/100146/fallecio-en-madrid-alejandro-lopez-de-haro-padre (Spanish)
  • Raymond V. Haysbert
    Raymond V. Haysbert
    Raymond V. Haysbert Sr. was a prominent African-American business executive and civil rights leader during the second half of the 20th century in Baltimore, Maryland. During World War II, he served in Africa and Italy with the renowned Tuskegee Airmen...

    , 90, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     business executive
    Executive officer
    An executive officer is generally a person responsible for running an organization, although the exact nature of the role varies depending on the organization.-Administrative law:...

     and civil rights
    Civil rights
    Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from unwarranted infringement by governments and private organizations, and ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the state without discrimination or repression.Civil rights include...

     leader, member of Tuskegee Airmen
    Tuskegee Airmen
    The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of a group of African American pilots who fought in World War II. Formally, they were the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps....

    , heart failure. http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/sns-ap-us-obit-haysbert,0,2953993.story
  • Morrie Martin
    Morrie Martin
    Morris Webster Martin was a former left-handed Major League Baseball pitcher. He pitched in the major leagues from 1949–1959, appearing in 250 games for several different teams....

    , 87, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     baseball
    Baseball
    Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

     player, lung cancer
    Lung cancer
    Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary...

    . http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/cardinals/story/E23B8C08EEE6A1BE8625772F0005F10C?OpenDocument
  • Rogelio Martínez
    Rogelio Martínez
    Rogelio Bautista Martínez Ulloa was a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Washington Senators during the season. Listed at 6' 0", 180 lb., Martínez batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Cidra, Matanzas Province, Cuba...

    , 91, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     baseball
    Baseball
    Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

     player (Washington Senators
    Minnesota Twins
    The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. They played in Metropolitan Stadium from 1961 to 1981 and the...

    ). http://www.newbritainherald.com/articles/2010/05/27/obituaries/doc4bfdd8ada091f959844897.txt
  • Petr Muk
    Petr Muk
    Petr Muk was a Czech pop musician, composer and performer, famous in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In addition to his albums of original songs, he released a tribute EP to the English band Erasure in 2004...

    , 45, Czech
    Czech Republic
    The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

     pop singer
    Pop Singer
    "Pop Singer" is the début single from London-based glam rockers Rachel Stamp. It was released in February, 1996 through WEA. The single was released as a 2 track CD Single and limited edition pink 7" vinyl of 1000 copies...

    . http://kultura.idnes.cz/necekane-zemrel-zpevak-petr-muk-hlas-oceanu-a-shalomu-p0a-/hudba.asp?c=A100524_113220_hudba_ob (Czech)
  • Barbara New
    Barbara New
    Barbara New was an English character actress, well known for playing Mabel the scullery maid in the David Croft sitcom You Rang M'Lord?. Following this role, she appeared as Vera Plumtree in Oh, Doctor Beeching!...

    , 86, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     actress (Oh, Doctor Beeching!
    Oh, Doctor Beeching!
    Oh, Doctor Beeching! is a British television sitcom written by David Croft and Richard Spendlove, which, after a broadcast pilot on 14 August 1995, ran for two series from 8 July 1996, with the last episode being broadcast on 28 September 1997...

    , You Rang, M'Lord?
    You Rang, M'Lord?
    You Rang M'Lord? is a British television series written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, the creators of Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Hi-de-Hi! It was broadcast between 1990 and 1993 on the BBC...

    ). http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=barbara-helene-barrington&pid=143171285
  • Stella Nova, 50, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     guitarist
    Guitarist
    A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

    , cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://shapersofthe80s.com/2010/05/24/2010-%E2%9E%A4-rich-kid-steve-new-aka-stella-nova-dies-at-50/
  • Eugenia Paul
    Eugenia Paul
    Eugenia Paul was an American actress and dancer best known for her role as Elena Torres in the television series, Zorro, which aired on the American television network, ABC....

    , 75, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     actress (Zorro). http://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/news/a222695/actress-eugenia-paul-dies-aged-75.html
  • Katherine Reback
    Katherine Reback
    Katherine Reback was an American screenwriter, best known for the screenplay of the 1997 romantic comedy Fools Rush In and for penning the production draft of the 1983 film, Flashdance....

    , 59, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     screenwriter
    Screenwriter
    Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

     (Fools Rush In), complications
    Complication (medicine)
    Complication, in medicine, is an unfavorable evolution of a disease, a health condition or a medical treatment. The disease can become worse in its severity or show a higher number of signs, symptoms or new pathological changes, become widespread throughout the body or affect other organ systems. A...

     from cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118019890.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
  • Abdolhamid Rigi
    Abdolhamid Rigi
    Abdolhamid Rigi was the elder brother of the detained leader of Jundallah, Abdolmalek Rigi...

    , c.31, Iran
    Iran
    Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

    ian militant, execution by hanging
    Hanging
    Hanging is the lethal suspension of a person by a ligature. The Oxford English Dictionary states that hanging in this sense is "specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck", though it formerly also referred to crucifixion and death by impalement in which the body would remain...

    . http://tabnak.ir/fa/pages/?cid=100369 (Persian)
  • Anneliese Rothenberger
    Anneliese Rothenberger
    Anneliese Rothenberger was a German operatic soprano who had an active international performance career which spanned from 1943 to 1983...

    , 83, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     opera
    Opera
    Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

     singer. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10161907.stm

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  • Princess Leonida Bagration of Mukhrani, 95, Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n Grand Duchess, last Romanov born in Russia. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/7759313/Last-Romanov-born-in-Russian-empire-dies-aged-95.html
  • Beaver
    Beaver (singer)
    Beverley Jean Morrison, better known as Beaver , was a New Zealand singer.She was a long running member of the ground-breaking Blerta musical and theatrical co-operative, and later of the similar troupe Red Mole. She played a small role in the 1985 movie Should I be Good, a New Zealand film based...

    , 59, New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

     jazz singer
    Vocal jazz
    Jazz singing can be defined by the instrumental approach to the voice, where the singer can match the instruments in their stylistic approach to the lyrics, improvised or otherwise, or through scat singing; that is, the use of nonsensical meaningless non-morphemic syllables to imitate the sound of...

    , sarcoma
    Sarcoma
    A sarcoma is a cancer that arises from transformed cells in one of a number of tissues that develop from embryonic mesoderm. Thus, sarcomas include tumors of bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, vascular, and hematopoietic tissues...

    . http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10647027
  • Beto
    Beto (Portuguese singer)
    Beto, artistic name of Albertino João Santos Pereira, was a Portuguese singer. He was born in Peniche, started to sing with 5 years old, and settled in Torres Vedras when he was 17 years old. Beto founded the music group Tanimaria in 1992, which performed in Xafarix, a bar in Lisbon...

    , 43, Portuguese
    Portugal
    Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

     singer, stroke
    Stroke
    A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...

    . http://jn.sapo.pt/PaginaInicial/Cultura/Interior.aspx?content_id=1576662 (Portuguese)
  • Héctor Costa
    Héctor Costa
    Héctor J. Costa Massironi was a basketball player from Uruguay, who twice won the bronze medal with the men's national team at the Summer Olympics: in 1952 and 1956. He competed in three consecutive Olympics for his native country, starting in 1952 .-References:* *...

    , 80, Uruguay
    Uruguay
    Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

    an basketball
    Basketball
    Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

     player, Olympic
    Olympic Games
    The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

     bronze medalist (1952
    1952 Summer Olympics
    The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Helsinki, Finland in 1952. Helsinki had been earlier given the 1940 Summer Olympics, which were cancelled due to World War II...

     1956
    1956 Summer Olympics
    The 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in Melbourne, Australia, in 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, which could not be held in Australia due to quarantine regulations...

     Summer Olympics). http://www.larepublica.com.uy/deportes/411298-fallecio-el-capitan-de-la-medalla-de-bronce-en-melbourne-56-hector-guanaco-costa (Spanish)
  • Gregory Evans
    Gregory Evans
    Gregory Thomas Evans, was a Canadian judge and commissioner.Born in McAdam, New Brunswick, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Saint Joseph's University in 1934 and graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1939. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1939 and was created a Queen's Counsel...

    , 96, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     jurist
    Jurist
    A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage...

    , Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario
    Supreme Court of Ontario
    The Supreme Court of Ontario was a superior court of the Canadian province of Ontario. Now defunct, in 1989 the Courts of Justice Amendment Act, 1989 was enacted by the Government to create one large superior trial court for Ontario...

     (1976–1985). http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/815032--former-ontario-chief-justice-gregory-evans-dies-at-96
  • David Ginsburg
    David Ginsburg (lawyer)
    Charles David Ginsburg was an American political advisor and lawyer who was among the founders of Americans for Democratic Action and served as executive director of the Kerner Commission, which warned that the U.S...

    , 98, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     lawyer
    Lawyer
    A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...

     and political insider
    Insider
    An insider is a member of any group of people of limited number and generally restricted access. The term is used in the context of secret, privileged, hidden or otherwise esoteric information or knowledge: an insider is a "member of the gang" and as such knows things only people in the gang...

    , heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/us/25ginsburg.html
  • José Lima
    José Lima
    José Desiderio Rodriguez Lima was a Dominican right-handed pitcher who spent thirteen seasons in Major League Baseball with the Detroit Tigers , Houston Astros , Kansas City Royals , Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets...

    , 37, Dominican
    Dominican Republic
    The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...

     baseball
    Baseball
    Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

     player, heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5212413
  • Ashot Mkhitaryan
    Ashot Mkhitaryan
    Dr. Ashot Mkhitaryan was the head of the National weightlifting team of the Republic of Armenia.-Achievements:...

    , 51, Armenia
    Armenia
    Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...

    n weightlifting and television personality, heart attack. http://times.am/2010/05/24/ashot-mkhitaryan-died-suddenly-in-%E2%80%9Czvartnots%E2%80%9D/
  • Simon Monjack
    Simon Monjack
    Simon Mark Monjack was an English screenwriter, film director, film producer and make-up artist. He was the widower of American actress Brittany Murphy.- Early life :...

    , 40, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     screenwriter
    Screenwriter
    Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

    , suspected heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1280799/Tragic-actress-Brittany-Murphys-husband-Simon-Monjack-dead.html
  • Marianna O'Gallagher
    Marianna O'Gallagher
    Marianna O'Gallagher was an Irish Quebecer historian from Quebec City. A former Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul nun, she wrote extensively on the history of the Irish in Quebec City, was involved in the creation of Grosse Isle National Historic Site and the revival of the Quebec City...

    , 84, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     Irish Quebecer historian
    Historian
    A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

    , lung cancer
    Lung cancer
    Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary...

    . http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/obituaries/2010/0529/1224271392381.html
  • Eva Ostwalt
    Eva Ostwalt
    Eva D. Ostwalt was a survivor of the Holocaust.Ostwalt was born into a Jewish mercantile family in Cologne, the eldest of three daughters. During the Second World War, she was forced to work for Siemens in a camp next to the Ravensbrück concentration camp...

    , 108, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

    -born American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     Holocaust
    The Holocaust
    The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...

     survivor. http://www.tributes.com/show/Eva-Ostwalt-88656239
  • Irwin Rosten
    Irwin Rosten
    Irwin Rosten was an American documentary filmmaker who also produced several hour-long documentaries for television. He is best known for his 1975 film The Incredible Machine. He was twice nominated for an Academy Award and won an Emmy Award for the documentary Mysteries of the Mind.Rosten was...

    , 85, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     documentary
    Documentary
    A documentary is a creative work of non-fiction, including:* Documentary film, including television* Radio documentary* Documentary photographyRelated terms include:...

     filmmaker (The Incredible Machine
    The Incredible Machine (film)
    The Incredible Machine is a 1975 documentary film directed by Irwin Rosten and Ed Spiegel. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. E. G. Marshall narrated the film, which was produced by Rosten, together with Dennis B...

    ), after short illness. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-irwin-rosten-20100530,0,7827656.story
  • Gane Todorovoski
    Gane Todorovoski
    Gane Todorovski was a Macedonian poet, translator, essayist literary critic and historian, publicist. Born 11th May 1929 in Skopje. Graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, University "SS. Cyril and Methodius” in Skopje, where he gained his Ph.D. with the thesis "Slavs Veda and its mystificators...

    , 81, Macedonian
    Republic of Macedonia
    Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...

     writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

     and academician
    Academician
    The title Academician denotes a Full Member of an art, literary, or scientific academy.In many countries, it is an honorary title. There also exists a lower-rank title, variously translated Corresponding Member or Associate Member, .-Eastern Europe and China:"Academician" may also be a functional...

    . http://www.macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/14762/45/
  • Willie Webber
    Willie Webber
    William "Wee Willie" W. Webber was an American radio and television personality and pioneer. Webber worked in radio and television in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, region for more than 50 years.-Biography:...

    , 80, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     radio
    Radio personality
    A radio personality is a person with an on-air position in radio broadcasting. A radio personality can be someone who introduces and discusses various genres of music, hosts a talk radio show that may take calls from listeners, or someone whose primary responsibility is to give news, weather,...

     and television personality, heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/20100524_TV_s__Wee_Willie__Webber_dies_at_80.html

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  • Martin Gardner
    Martin Gardner
    Martin Gardner was an American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing micromagic, stage magic, literature , philosophy, scientific skepticism, and religion...

    , 95, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     mathematics
    Mathematics
    Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

     and science
    Science
    Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

     author
    Author
    An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

    . http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/05/22/martin-gardner-1914-2010/
  • Hasri Ainun Habibie, 72, Indonesia
    Indonesia
    Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

    n First Lady
    First Lady
    First Lady or First Gentlemanis the unofficial title used in some countries for the spouse of an elected head of state.It is not normally used to refer to the spouse or partner of a prime minister; the husband or wife of the British Prime Minister is usually informally referred to as prime...

     (1998–1999), cervical cancer
    Cervical cancer
    Cervical cancer is malignant neoplasm of the cervix uteri or cervical area. One of the most common symptoms is abnormal vaginal bleeding, but in some cases there may be no obvious symptoms until the cancer is in its advanced stages...

    . http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/former-indonesian-first-lady-dies-20100523-w3bu.html
  • Peter Hall
    Peter Hall (flying ace)
    Flight Lieutenant Peter Francis Locker Hall, DFC & Bar was a New Zealand flying ace during World War II. He had become infatuated with flight in 1928, when his father bought him a plane ride with Australian aviation pioneer Charles Kingsford Smith.Hall joined RNZAF No. 488 Squadron in 1943, and...

    , 88, New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

     airman, World War II flying ace
    Flying ace
    A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The actual number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an "ace" has varied, but is usually considered to be five or more...

    . http://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/107582/ww2-nz-flying-ace-dies-england
  • Keith Jessop
    Keith Jessop
    Keith Jessop was a British salvage diver and successful marine treasure hunter.-Early life:Born in Keighley as the son of a penniless Yorkshire mill-worker, he left school without a single qualification, but to make ends meet he started salvaging scrap metal from shallow water wrecks off the coast...

    , 77, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     deep sea
    Deep sea
    The deep sea, or deep layer, is the lowest layer in the ocean, existing below the thermocline and above the seabed, at a depth of 1000 fathoms or more. Little or no light penetrates this part of the ocean and most of the organisms that live there rely for subsistence on falling organic matter...

     diver
    Underwater diving
    Underwater diving is the practice of going underwater, either with breathing apparatus or by breath-holding .Recreational diving is a popular activity...

     and marine
    Marine (ocean)
    Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...

     treasure hunter
    Treasure hunting
    Treasure hunting is the physical search for treasure which has been a notable human activity for millennia. -In modern times:In recent times, the early stages of the development of archaeology included a significant aspect of treasure hunt; Heinrich Schliemann's excavations at Troy, and later at...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7765206/Keith-Jessop.html
  • Josef Koukl
    Josef Koukl
    Josef Koukl was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Litoměřice, Czech Republic....

    , 83, Czech
    Czech Republic
    The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

     Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop
    Bishop (Catholic Church)
    In the Catholic Church, a bishop is an ordained minister who holds the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders and is responsible for teaching the Catholic faith and ruling the Church....

     of Litoměřice
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Litomerice
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Litoměřice is a diocese located in the city of Litoměřice in the Ecclesiastical province of Prague in the Czech Republic.-History:* July 3, 1655: Established as Diocese of Litoměřice from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Praha...

     (1989–2003). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bkoukl.html
  • Michael Kuchwara
    Michael Kuchwara
    Michael Charlies Kuchwara was an American theater critic, columnist and journalist. Kuchwara worked as both a critic and journalist for the Associated Press for more than from 1984 until 2010, writing pieces that were read worldwide...

    , 63, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     theater critic (Associated Press
    Associated Press
    The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...

    ), idiopathic
    Idiopathic
    Idiopathic is an adjective used primarily in medicine meaning arising spontaneously or from an obscure or unknown cause. From Greek ἴδιος, idios + πάθος, pathos , it means approximately "a disease of its own kind". It is technically a term from nosology, the classification of disease...

     ischemic
    Ischemia
    In medicine, ischemia is a restriction in blood supply, generally due to factors in the blood vessels, with resultant damage or dysfunction of tissue. It may also be spelled ischaemia or ischæmia...

     lung disease. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/nyregion/23kuchwara.html
  • Buz Lukens
    Buz Lukens
    Donald Edgar "Buz" Lukens was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio. His political career ended in scandal.-Early years:...

    , 79, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , U.S. Representative
    United States House of Representatives
    The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

     for Ohio
    Ohio
    Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...

     (1967–1971; 1987–1990), cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.npr.org/blogs/politicaljunkie/2010/05/24/127091194/buz-lukens-conservative-up---comer-turned-embarrassment-dies-at-79
  • Lwandile Zwelenkosi Matanzima
    Lwandile Zwelenkosi Matanzima
    Lwandile Zwelenkosi Matanzima was a South African clan leader and ruler and king of Western Thembuland.Matanzima was the grandson of the former President of Transkei, Kaiser Matanzima....

    , 39, South Africa
    South Africa
    The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

    n clan leader
    Clan
    A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent. Even if lineage details are unknown, clan members may be organized around a founding member or apical ancestor. The kinship-based bonds may be symbolical, whereby the clan shares a "stipulated" common ancestor that is a...

    , ruler of Western Thembuland. http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=404207
  • Martin Mulloy, 58, Irish
    Republic of Ireland
    Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

     banjo
    Banjo
    In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...

     player, drowning
    Drowning
    Drowning is death from asphyxia due to suffocation caused by water entering the lungs and preventing the absorption of oxygen leading to cerebral hypoxia....

    . http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Singer+dies+in+boating+accident%3B+DROWNING.-a0227158706
  • Veturi Sundararama Murthy, 74, India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

    n poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

     and lyricist
    Lyricist
    A lyricist is a songwriter who specializes in lyrics. A singer who writes the lyrics to songs is a singer-lyricist. This differentiates from a singer-composer, who composes the song's melody.-Collaboration:...

    , cardiac arrest
    Cardiac arrest
    Cardiac arrest, is the cessation of normal circulation of the blood due to failure of the heart to contract effectively...

    . http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/98448/India/Legendary+Telugu+film+lyricist+Veturi+Sundararama+Murthy+dead.html
  • Pierre Zimmer
    Pierre Zimmer
    Pierre Zimmer was a French actor and film director. He appeared in 31 films and television shows between 1966 and 2001...

    , 82, French actor and film director. http://www.lesgensducinema.com/affiche_acteur.php?nom=ZIMMER%20Pierre&from=dvdtoile (French)

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  • Adrian Cruickshank
    Adrian Cruickshank
    Adrian John Cruickshank was an Australian politician and philanthropist. He was the National Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Murrumbidgee from 1984 to 1999....

    , 73, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
    New South Wales Legislative Assembly
    The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The other chamber is the Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney...

     (1984–1999). http://www.areanews.com.au/news/local/news/general/former-mp-remembered/1838149.aspx
  • Stan Jones
    Stan Jones (American football)
    Stanley Paul "Stan" Jones was an American football guard and defensive tackle in the National Football League for the Chicago Bears and the Washington Redskins. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1991...

    , 78, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     football
    American football
    American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

     player (Chicago Bears
    Chicago Bears
    The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...

    ), complications
    Complication (medicine)
    Complication, in medicine, is an unfavorable evolution of a disease, a health condition or a medical treatment. The disease can become worse in its severity or show a higher number of signs, symptoms or new pathological changes, become widespread throughout the body or affect other organ systems. A...

     from a stroke
    Stroke
    A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...

    . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/25/AR2010052505175.html
  • Anna-Lena Löfgren
    Anna-Lena Löfgren
    Anna-Lena Löfgren was a Swedish singer from Stockholm. During the years 1962 and 1995, more than 40 of her songs made it onto Svensktoppen, the record chart of Sveriges Radio. Löfgren became one of the most best known schlager singers in Sweden during the 1960s.She made her first public...

    , 66, Swedish
    Sweden
    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

     singer. http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/nyheter/anna-lena-lofgren-dod-1.1109630 (Swedish)
  • Bill Long
    Bill Long (writer)
    Bill Long was an Irish writer and broadcaster. He often featured on RTÉ Radio 1. He was also Ireland's longest surviving heart transplant patient.-Early life:...

    , 78, Irish
    Republic of Ireland
    Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

     writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

     and broadcaster
    Presenter
    A presenter, or host , is a person or organization responsible for running an event. A museum or university, for example, may be the presenter or host of an exhibit. Likewise, a master of ceremonies is a person that hosts or presents a show...

    , Ireland's longest surviving heart transplant patient. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/obituaries/2010/0612/1224272355300.html
  • Will Munro
    Will Munro
    William Grant "Will" Munro was a Toronto artist, club promoter, and restaurateur known for his work as a community builder among disparate Toronto groups...

    , 35, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     artist, brain cancer. http://arts.nationalpost.com/2010/05/21/toronto-artist-and-scene-impresario-will-munro-dies-of-cancer/
  • Howard Post
    Howard Post
    Howard Post , aka Howie Post, was an American animator, cartoonist and comic strip and comic book writer-artist....

    , 83, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     cartoonist
    Cartoonist
    A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...

     and animator
    Animation
    Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

    . http://www.app.com/article/20100524/NEWS03/100524079/1024/POLITICS/Cartoonist-Howard-Post-of-Leonia-NJ-dies-at-83
  • Robert Gordon Rogers
    Robert Gordon Rogers
    Robert Gordon Rogers, OC, OBC was the 24th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia from 1983 to 1988.Born in Montreal, he was a graduate of the University of Toronto Schools, the University of Toronto, and the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston...

    , 90, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
    Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
    The Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia is the viceregal representative in British Columbia of the Canadian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, who operates distinctly within the province but is also shared with equally the ten other jurisdictions of Canada and resides predominantly in her oldest...

     (1983–1988). http://www.theprovince.com/news/Former+lieutenant+governor+Robert+Rogers+dies/3058974/story.html
  • Gerald Roush
    Gerald Roush
    Gerald Lee Roush was an American sports car expert who specialized in Ferraris, with much of his knowledge on the details and histories of the Italian sports cars covered in Ferrari Market Letter, a magazine that he published and distributed.Roush was born on October 5, 1941 in Durango, Colorado,...

    , 68, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     Ferrari
    Ferrari
    Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929, as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles as Ferrari S.p.A. in 1947...

     expert, heart attack. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/business/30roush.html
  • Madan Tamang
    Madan Tamang
    Madan Tamang was an Indian politician of Nepali descent, a Gorkha leader, and the president of Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League , a moderate faction of the Gorkhaland movement...

    , 62, Nepal
    Nepal
    Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

    i politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , President of Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League
    Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League
    Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League is a political party working amongst the Nepali-speaking population in Darjeeling District, West Bengal, India. The party was founded in 1943 by Damber Singh Gurung. The current president is Bharati Tamang, widow of late Madan Tamang, a former president of ABGL...

    , stabbed. http://www.indianexpress.com/comments/gorkha-leader-madan-tamang-killed-darjeeling-tense/621822/
  • Driek van Wissen
    Driek van Wissen
    Driek van Wissen was a Dutch poet. He was born in Groningen. On January 26, 2005 he was chosen as the Dichter des Vaderlands , following Gerrit Komrij. In 1987 the Dutch literary magazine De Tweede Ronde honored him by awarding him the Kees-Stip Prize for his career work and use of light verse...

    , 66, Dutch
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

     poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

    , intracranial hemorrhage
    Intracranial hemorrhage
    An intracranial hemorrhage is a hemorrhage, or bleeding, within the skull.-Causes:Intracranial bleeding occurs when a blood vessel within the skull is ruptured or leaks. It can result from physical trauma or nontraumatic causes such as a ruptured aneurysm...

    . http://www.leeuwardercourant.nl/nieuws/cultregio/article6097717.ece/Driek-van-Wissen-%2866%29-overleden (Dutch)

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  • Gesang Martohartono
    Gesang Martohartono
    Gesang Martohartono was a renowned Indonesian singer-songwriter from central Java, and he is the composer of the song Bengawan Solo, a tune which has become famous throughout Indonesia, Japan, much of Asia, and some other countries in the world. The song is almost synonymous with the kroncong...

    , 92, Indonesia
    Indonesia
    Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

    n singer-songwriter
    Singer-songwriter
    Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

    . http://nasional.vivanews.com/news/read/152454-gesang_tutup_usia (Indonesian)
  • Robert L. McNeil, Jr.
    Robert L. McNeil, Jr.
    Robert Lincoln McNeil, Jr. was an American chemist and pharmaceutical industry executive. He was responsible for, among other things, the commercial development, naming, and introduction of the pain reliever Tylenol....

    , 94, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     chemist
    Chemist
    A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...

     and inventor, creator of Tylenol
    Tylenol
    Tylenol is a North American brand of drugs advertised for reducing pain, reducing fever, and relieving the symptoms of allergies, cold, cough, and flu. The active ingredient of its original, flagship product, paracetamol , is marketed as an analgesic and antipyretic...

    , heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/04/business/04mcneil.html
  • Hugh Morris
    Hugh Morris (businessman)
    Hugh Morris was a New Zealand businessman who founded McDonald’s New Zealand in 1976.Morris founded the first McDonald's in New Zealand in 1976. He established the company with the aid of several business partners, including Lionel Whitehead, Gary Lloydd, Ray Stonelake, and his brother, Wally...

    , New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

     businessman, founder of McDonald’s New Zealand. http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/mcdonald-s-new-zealand-founder-dies-123644
  • Breandán Ó Buachalla
    Breandán Ó Buachalla
    Professor Breandán Ó Buachalla was an Irish scholar of the Irish language. According to Raidió Teilifís Éireann, he was "the leading authority on Gaelic poetry and writing in early modern Ireland" and "one of the most prominent Irish language academics of his generation". The Irish Times described...

    , 74, Irish
    Republic of Ireland
    Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

     academic, Irish language
    Irish language
    Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...

     scholar, heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0521/breaking17.html
  • Walter Rudin
    Walter Rudin
    Walter Rudin was an American mathematician, for most of his career a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison....

    , 89, Austria
    Austria
    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

    n-born American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     mathematician
    Mathematician
    A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

    , Parkinson's disease
    Parkinson's disease
    Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system...

    . http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/university/article_b6fa8098-6512-11df-9cbf-001cc4c002e0.html
  • Robert Tralins
    Robert Tralins
    Robert Tralins was a prolific author/novelist whose career began in the 1960s and continued until his death. He is best known for his first-hand research and story collections featured on the television shows Miracles and Other Wonders and Beyond Belief: Fact Or Fiction?.When Madam Sherry, an...

    , 84, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     author
    Author
    An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

    . http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/baltimoresun/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=143061703.
  • Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson
    Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson
    Sir Leonard Gordon Wolfson, 1st Baron Wolfson, 2nd Bt FRS was a British businessman, the former Chairman of GUS, and son of GUS magnate Sir Isaac Wolfson, 1st Baronet. He was Chairman of the Wolfson Foundation...

    , 82, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     businessman, philanthropist
    Philanthropist
    A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, and/or reputation to charitable causes...

     and life peer
    Life peer
    In the United Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the Peerage whose titles cannot be inherited. Nowadays life peerages, always of baronial rank, are created under the Life Peerages Act 1958 and entitle the holders to seats in the House of Lords, presuming they meet qualifications such as...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/finance-obituaries/7750834/Lord-Wolfson.html.

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  • Trevor Brissett
    Trevor Brissett
    Trevor Anthony Brissett was an English footballer.-Playing career:Brissett played for Stoke City before joining local rivals Port Vale in May 1980. After becoming a regular in the 1980–81 season he lost his first team place the next season and was given a free transfer in May 1982...

    , 49, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     footballer, cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.mtfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10393~2055566,00.html (death announced on this date)
  • Martin Cohan
    Martin Cohan
    Martin "Marty" Cohan was a television producer and writer. Cohan co-created the sitcom, Who's the Boss?, which aired on ABC from 1984 until 1992, with business partner, Blake Hunter. Cohan is also credited with creating Silver Spoons, which ran on NBC from 1982 to 1987 and launched the career of...

    , 77, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     television writer
    Screenwriting
    Screenwriting is the art and craft of writing scripts for mass media such as feature films, television productions or video games. It is a freelance profession....

     and producer
    Television producer
    The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...

    , creator of Silver Spoons
    Silver Spoons
    Silver Spoons is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 25, 1982 to May 11, 1986 and in first-run syndication from September 15, 1986 to March 4, 1987...

    , Who's the Boss?
    Who's the Boss?
    Who's the Boss? is an American sitcom created by Martin Cohan and Blake Hunter, which aired on ABC from September 20, 1984 to April 25, 1992...

    , large cell lymphoma
    Large cell lymphoma
    One classification system for lymphomas divides the diseases according to the size of the white blood cells that has turned cancerous. The large-cell lymphomas have large cells. A large cell, in this context, has a diameter of 17 to 20 µm...

    . http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118019671.html?categoryId=25&cs=1
  • Larry Dale
    Larry Dale
    Larry Dale was an American blues singer and guitarist. He was born in Wharton, Texas, United States.During the early 1950s Ennis Lowery took initial inspiration on guitar playing from B.B...

    , 87, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     blues
    Blues
    Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

     singer
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

     and guitarist
    Guitarist
    A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

    . http://www.wirz.de/music/dalefrm.htm
  • Pierre-Claver Zeng Ebome
    Pierre-Claver Zeng Ebome
    Pierre-Claver Zeng Ebome was a Gabonese politician and musician. He held a succession of ministerial portfolios in the government of Gabon during the 1990s and subsequently served as a Deputy in the National Assembly of Gabon...

    , 56, Gabon
    Gabon
    Gabon , officially the Gabonese Republic is a state in west central Africa sharing borders with Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, and with the Republic of the Congo curving around the east and south. The Gulf of Guinea, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean is to the west...

    ese politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

     and musician
    Musician
    A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

    . http://www.gabonews.ga/index.php/component/content/article/75-politique/2023-deces-pierre-claver-zeng-ebome-les-gabonais-reagissent (French)
  • Aleksandrs Golubovs
    Aleksandrs Golubovs
    Aleksandrs Golubovs was a Latvian politician. He was a member of the Socialist Party of Latvia and a deputy of the 9th Saeima . He began his term in parliament on November 7, 2006. Golubovs died on 19 May 2010, during an official visit to Belarus.-External links:*...

    , 50/51, Latvia
    Latvia
    Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

    n politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , member of the Saeima
    Saeima
    Saeima is the parliament of the Republic of Latvia. It is a unicameral parliament consisting of 100 members who are elected by proportional representation, with seats allocated to political parties which gain at least 5% of the popular vote. Elections are scheduled to be held once every four years,...

     (since 1995). http://www.tvnet.lv/zinas/latvija/331441-vizites_laika_baltkrievija_miris_saeimas_deputats_golubovs (Latvian)
  • Horácio Roque
    Horácio Roque
    Horácio da Silva Roque was a Portuguese financier and businessman, who founded the Banco Internacional do Funchal in 1988....

    , 66, Portuguese
    Portugal
    Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

     financier
    Financier
    Financier is a term for a person who handles typically large sums of money, usually involving money lending, financing projects, large-scale investing, or large-scale money management. The term is French, and derives from finance or payment...

    , founder of Banco Internacional do Funchal
    Banco Internacional do Funchal
    Banif Financial Group is a Portuguese international financial services group based around the bank Banco Internacional do Funchal. The company has a presence in Europe, South America, North America, Africa and Asia.-History:...

    , stroke
    Stroke
    A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...

    . http://www.theportugalnews.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=1062-6
  • Moishe Rosen
    Moishe Rosen
    Martin "Moishe" Rosen was the founder and former Executive Director of Jews for Jesus, an evangelical Christian missionary organization that focuses specifically on evangelism to the Jewish people. His parents were Ben Rosen and Rose Baker. Rosen was raised in Denver, Colorado...

    , 78, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     Baptist
    Baptist
    Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...

     minister, founder of Jews for Jesus
    Jews for Jesus
    Jews for Jesus is a conservative, Christian evangelical organization that focuses on the conversion of Jews to Christianity. Its members consider themselves to be Jews – either as defined by Jewish law, or as according to the view of Jews for Jesus. Jews for Jesus defines “Jewish” in terms of...

    , after long illness. http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=32966
  • Harry Vos
    Harry Vos
    Henry Antonie "Harry" Vos was a Dutch footballer.-Career:During his club career he played for ADO Den Haag, PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord Rotterdam in the Eredivisie.-International career:...

    , 63, Dutch
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

     footballer, cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.fcupdate.nl/voetbalnieuws/146649/oud-voetballer-harry-vos-63-overleden/ (Dutch)

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  • Shusaku Arakawa
    Shusaku Arakawa
    was a Japanese artist and architect. He had a personal and artistic partnership with writer and artist Madeline Gins that spanned more than four decades.-Life:...

    , 73, Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

    ese artist
    Artist
    An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

     and architect
    Architect
    An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/arts/design/20arakawa.html
  • Sheila Armstrong, 60, American Olympic fencer. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ar/sheila-armstrong-1.html
  • Martha Bielish
    Martha Bielish
    Martha Palamarek Bielish was a politician, farmer, feminist, and teacher from Alberta, Canada. She served as a member of the Senate of Canada sitting with the Progressive Conservative caucus from 1979 to 1990.-Early life:...

    , 94, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , Senator (1979–1990). http://www.legacy.com/can-edmonton/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=142987247
  • Don Day
    Don Day
    Don Day was an Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1971 until 1984. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party ....

    , 86, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

     Minister for Agriculture
    New South Wales Department of Primary Industries
    The New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, a division of the New South Wales Government, is responsibile for the administration and development for agriculture, fisheries, aquaculture, state forests, biosecurity, and crown lands in New South Wales...

     (1978–1980). http://www.dailyexaminer.com.au/story/2010/05/20/he-was-a-man-of-the-people-don-day-battled-barrier/
  • John Gooders
    John Gooders
    John Gooders was a writer who first came to prominence with his first book Where to Watch Birds. At the time he was a teacher, and a lecturer at the Avery Hill teacher training college.-Television Biography:...

    , 73, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     ornithologist. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7139335.ece
  • Karin Iten
    Karin Iten
    Karin Iten was a Swiss figure skater. She won the bronze medal at the 1973 European Figure Skating Championships. She died on May 18, 2010 in Winterthur....

    , 53, Swiss
    Switzerland
    Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

     figure skater
    Figure skating
    Figure skating is an Olympic sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice skates. Figure skaters compete at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level , and at local, national, and international competitions...

    . http://news.search.ch/sport/diversesport/2010-05-20/eiskunstlauf-karin-iten-verstorben (German)
  • Edoardo Sanguineti
    Edoardo Sanguineti
    Edoardo Sanguineti was an Italian writer who was born in Genoa.-Biography:During the 1960s he was a leader of the neo avant-garde Gruppo 63 movement, founded in 1963 at Solunto....

    , 79, Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

    , complications
    Complication (medicine)
    Complication, in medicine, is an unfavorable evolution of a disease, a health condition or a medical treatment. The disease can become worse in its severity or show a higher number of signs, symptoms or new pathological changes, become widespread throughout the body or affect other organ systems. A...

     following abdominal aneurysm surgery
    Surgery
    Surgery is an ancient medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, or to help improve bodily function or appearance.An act of performing surgery may be called a surgical...

    . http://breakingnews.gaeatimes.com/2010/05/18/edoardo-sanguineti-79-italian-poet-whose-playful-language-marked-60s-literary-scene-dies-28501/
  • Peter Seaton
    Peter Seaton
    Peter Seaton was a U.S. poet associated with the first wave of Language poetry in the 1970s. During the opening and middle years of Language poetry many of his long prose poems were published, widely read and influential...

    , 67, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

    , influential in language poetry movement, apparent heart attack. http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/blog/#06-25-10
  • Devendra Singh
    Devendra Singh
    Devendra Singh was a professor of Psychology at the University of Texas, known largely for his research regarding the evolutionary significance of human attraction.-Biography:...

    , 72, India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

    n-born American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     psychologist
    Psychologist
    Psychologist is a professional or academic title used by individuals who are either:* Clinical professionals who work with patients in a variety of therapeutic contexts .* Scientists conducting psychological research or teaching psychology in a college...

     and educator. http://www.psy.utexas.edu/psy/faculty/singh/singh.html
  • Snow Chief
    Snow Chief
    Snow Chief was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse.-Background:Bred by Carl Grinstead, in 1984 retired vaudevillian and successful real estate investor Ben Rochelle bought a fifty percent interest in Grinstead's Blue Diamond Ranch thus becoming a half owner of the yearling, Snow Chief...

    , 18, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     Thoroughbred
    Thoroughbred
    The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

     racehorse
    Horse racing
    Horse racing is an equestrian sport that has a long history. Archaeological records indicate that horse racing occurred in ancient Babylon, Syria, and Egypt. Both chariot and mounted horse racing were events in the ancient Greek Olympics by 648 BC...

    , euthanized
    Animal euthanasia
    Animal euthanasia is the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, an animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition. Euthanasia methods are designed to cause minimal pain and distress...

    . http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/breeding-news/2010/May/18/California-bred-Preakness-winner-Snow-Chief-dies.aspx
  • Willie Zapalac
    Willie Zapalac
    Willie Frank Zapalac was the eighth head college football coach for the University of Texas at Arlington Mavericks located in Arlington, Texas, and he held that position for the 1952 season. His career coaching record at UT Arlington was 8 wins, 1 losses, and 1 ties...

    , 89, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     football
    American football
    American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

     coach
    Coach (sport)
    In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.-Staff:...

    . http://www.kbtx.com/sports/headlines/94283644.html

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  • Víctor Selvino Arenhart
    Víctor Selvino Arenhart
    Víctor Selvino Arenhart was the first Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oberá, Argentina....

    , 61, Argentine
    Argentina
    Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

     Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop
    Bishop (Catholic Church)
    In the Catholic Church, a bishop is an ordained minister who holds the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders and is responsible for teaching the Catholic faith and ruling the Church....

     of Oberá
    Oberá
    Oberá is a city in the interfluvial province of Misiones, Argentina, and the head town of the Oberá Department. It is located 96 km east of the provincial capital Posadas, on National Route 14, and about 1,150 km north of Buenos Aires...

     (since 2009). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bsear.html
  • Judson Crews
    Judson Crews
    Judson Crews was an American poet, bookseller and small press publisher.Crews was born and raised in Waco, Texas. He first opened his Motive Bookshop and issued his first Motive Press publications in Waco. In 1947 he moved both concerns to Taos, New Mexico and married Taos photographer Mildred...

    , 92, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

    .http://www.taosnews.com/articles/2010/05/24/news/doc4bf58de62d26b717291002.txt
  • Ludwig von Friedeburg
    Ludwig von Friedeburg
    Ludwig von Friedeburg was a German politician and sociologist. He served as Minister for Education for the state of Hesse from 1969 until 1974. During that period he forced the installation of Comprehensive Schools in the state of Hesse, heavily opposed by the Christian Democratic Union...

    , 85, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

     and sociologist, Hesse
    Hesse
    Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...

     Minister for Education (1969–1974). http://www.bild.de/BILD/regional/frankfurt/dpa/2010/05/20/exkultusminister-von-friedeburg-tot.html (German)
  • Richard Gregory
    Richard Gregory
    Richard Langton Gregory, CBE, MA, D.Sc., FRSE, FRS was a British psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Bristol.-Life and career:...

    , 86, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     psychologist
    Psychologist
    Psychologist is a professional or academic title used by individuals who are either:* Clinical professionals who work with patients in a variety of therapeutic contexts .* Scientists conducting psychological research or teaching psychology in a college...

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7129933.ece
  • Dorothy Kamenshek
    Dorothy Kamenshek
    Dorothy "Dottie" Kamenshek was an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player. She batted and threw left-handed....

    , 84, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     baseball
    Baseball
    Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

     player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
    All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
    The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was a women's professional baseball league founded by Philip K. Wrigley which existed from 1943 to 1954. During the league's history, over 600 women played ball.-History:...

    , 1943–1952). http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dorothy-kamenshek-20100522,0,2217996.story
  • Yvonne Loriod
    Yvonne Loriod
    Yvonne Loriod was a French pianist, teacher, and composer, and the second wife of composer Olivier Messiaen. Her sister was the Ondes Martenot player Jeanne Loriod.-Life:...

    , 86, French
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

     pianist
    Pianist
    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

    , composer
    Composer
    A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

     and teacher
    Teacher
    A teacher or schoolteacher is a person who provides education for pupils and students . The role of teacher is often formal and ongoing, carried out at a school or other place of formal education. In many countries, a person who wishes to become a teacher must first obtain specified professional...

    , widow of Olivier Messiaen
    Olivier Messiaen
    Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/arts/music/19loriod.html
  • Mukhran Machavariani
    Mukhran Machavariani
    Mukhran Machavariani was a Georgian poet, a member of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia from 1990 until 1992, and a recipient of the Shota Rustaveli State Prize of Georgia. From 1988 until 1990 he was the Chairman of the Union of Georgian Writers....

    , 81, Georgian
    Georgia (country)
    Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

     poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

    , heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://www.messenger.com.ge/issues/2108_may_18_2010/2108_news_in_brief.html
  • Rafael Nantes
    Rafael Nantes
    Rafael "Raffy" Puchero Nantes was the governor of the Province of Quezon, Philippines from 2007 to 2010. He was the national treasurer of the Liberal Party of the Philippines. He first served as a congressman of the 1st District of Quezon from 1998 to 2007.-Early life:He was born on January 4,...

    , 53, Filipino
    Philippines
    The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

     politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , helicopter crash. http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/257807/quezon-governor-3-others-killed-chopper-crash
  • Khattiya Sawasdipol
    Khattiya Sawasdipol
    Khattiya Sawasdipol , alias Seh Daeng , was a major general in the Royal Thai Army, assigned to the Internal Security Operations Command. He claimed to have helped the United States spy on North Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and to have taken part in the CIA-financed "Secret War" against the...

    , 58, Thai
    Thailand
    Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

     army general
    General
    A general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given....

     and activist, advisor to the Red Shirts
    National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship
    The United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship , whose supporters are commonly called "Red Shirts", is a political pressure group opposed to the People's Alliance for Democracy , the 2006 Thai military coup, and supporters of the coup. Notable UDD leaders include Jatuporn Prompan, Nattawut...

    , shot
    Ballistic trauma
    The term ballistic trauma refers to a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions. The most common forms of ballistic trauma stem from firearms used in armed conflicts, civilian sporting and recreational pursuits, and criminal activity.-Destructive effects:The degree...

    . http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1057146/1/.html
  • Bobbejaan Schoepen
    Bobbejaan Schoepen
    Bobbejaan Schoepen is a pseudonym of Modest Schoepen was a Flemish pioneer in Belgian pop music, vaudeville, and European country music...

    , 85, Belgian
    Belgium
    Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

     singer-songwriter
    Singer-songwriter
    Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

     and entrepreneur
    Entrepreneur
    An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...

    , cardiac arrest
    Cardiac arrest
    Cardiac arrest, is the cessation of normal circulation of the blood due to failure of the heart to contract effectively...

    . http://www.belgovision.com/en/index_f.php?id=6565
  • Fritz Sennheiser
    Fritz Sennheiser
    Fritz Sennheiser was a German inventor and entrepreneur who founded and served as chairman of Sennheiser Electronic, a manufacturer of audio equipment.-Early life and education:...

    , 98, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     electrical engineer
    Electrical engineering
    Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...

     and entrepreneur, founder of Sennheiser
    Sennheiser
    Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG is a private German audio company specializing in the design and production of a wide range of both consumer and high fidelity products, including microphones, headphones, telephony accessories, and avionics headsets for consumer, professional, and business...

    . http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/20/fritz_sennheiser/
  • George Terlep
    George Terlep
    George Rudolph "Duke" Terlep was an American professional football player, coach, and general manager and member of the Indiana Football Hall of Fame.-Playing career:...

    , 87, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     football
    American football
    American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

     player (Buffalo Bills
    Buffalo Bills (AAFC)
    The Buffalo Bills was an American Football team, based in Buffalo, NY, that played in the All-America Football Conference from 1946 to 1949. During its first season in 1946, the team was known as the Buffalo Bisons...

    ) and head coach
    Head coach
    A head coach, senior coach or manager is a professional at training and developing athletes. They typically hold a more public profile and are paid more than other coaches...

    . http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sptimes/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=142910106
  • Walasse Ting
    Walasse Ting
    Walasse Ting was a Chinese-American visual artist and poet. His colorful paintings have attracted critical admiration and a popular following. Common subjects include nude women and cats, birds and other animals....

    , 80, Chinese
    Republic of China
    The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor...

    -born American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     visual artist
    Visual arts
    The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, and often modern visual arts and architecture...

    . http://www.prnasia.com/pr/10/05/100451811-1.html

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  • Debbie Abono
    Debbie Abono
    Debbie Abono was an American manager of death metal and thrash metal bands during the 1980s and 1990s.-Biography:...

    , 80, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     band manager
    Talent manager
    A talent manager, also known as an artist manager or band manager, is an individual or company who guides the professional career of artists in the entertainment industry...

    . http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/contracostatimes/obituary.aspx?n=deborah-abono&pid=143218854
  • Ronnie James Dio
    Ronnie James Dio
    Ronald James Padavona , better known as Ronnie James Dio, was an American heavy metal vocalist and songwriter. He performed with, amongst others, Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell, and his own band Dio, which means God in Italian. Other musical projects include the collective fundraiser...

    , 67, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     heavy metal
    Heavy metal music
    Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

     singer (Black Sabbath
    Black Sabbath
    Black Sabbath are an English heavy metal band, formed in Aston, Birmingham in 1969 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward . The band has since experienced multiple line-up changes, with Tony Iommi the only constant presence in the band through the years. A total of 22...

    , Rainbow
    Rainbow (band)
    Rainbow were an English rock band, controlled by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore from 1975 to 1984 and 1994 to 1997. It was originally established with American rock band Elf's members, though over the years Rainbow went through many line-up changes with no two studio albums featuring the same line-up...

    , Dio
    Dio (band)
    Dio was an American heavy metal band from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Formed in 1982 and led by vocalist Ronnie James Dio, after he left Black Sabbath with intentions to form a new band with fellow former Black Sabbath member, drummer Vinny Appice. Naming the band Dio made sense from a commercial...

    ), stomach cancer
    Stomach cancer
    Gastric cancer, commonly referred to as stomach cancer, can develop in any part of the stomach and may spread throughout the stomach and to other organs; particularly the esophagus, lungs, lymph nodes, and the liver...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/arts/music/17dio.html
  • Frank Dye
    Frank Dye
    Frank Dye was a sailor who, in two separate voyages, sailed a Wayfarer class dinghy from the United Kingdom to Iceland and Norway. An account of this was written by Frank and his wife Margaret, published in 1977 as Ocean Crossing Wayfarer...

    , British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     sailor
    Sailor
    A sailor, mariner, or seaman is a person who navigates water-borne vessels or assists in their operation, maintenance, or service. The term can apply to professional mariners, military personnel, and recreational sailors as well as a plethora of other uses...

    . http://www.wayfarer.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=263:frank-dye-obituary&catid=23:general-information&Itemid=165
  • Alfonso Escámez
    Alfonso Escámez
    Alfonso Escámez was a Spanish banker. He was the president of Banco Central from 1973 until 1992. He was awarded the title "Marquess of Águilas" by King Juan Carlos I.Escámez died on 16 May 2010, at the age of 94.- References :...

    , 94, Spanish
    Spain
    Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

     banker. http://www.elpais.com/articulo/economia/Alfonso/Escamez/banquero/vieja/escuela/elpepueco/20100517elpepueco_1/Tes (Spanish)
  • Aiyana Jones
    Aiyana Jones
    Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley Jones was a seven-year-old girl from the East Side of Detroit, Michigan who was shot and killed during a raid conducted by the Detroit Police Department's Special Response Team on May 16, 2010. Her death drew national media attention and led U.S. Representative John Conyers...

    , 7, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     victim, shot
    Ballistic trauma
    The term ballistic trauma refers to a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions. The most common forms of ballistic trauma stem from firearms used in armed conflicts, civilian sporting and recreational pursuits, and criminal activity.-Destructive effects:The degree...

    . http://www.freep.com/article/20100519/NEWS01/100519057/Homicide-suspect-hunted-in-raid-leading-to-Aiyanas-death-is-charged
  • Hank Jones
    Hank Jones
    Henry "Hank" Jones was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger, and composer. Critics and musicians described Jones as eloquent, lyrical, and impeccable. In 1989, The National Endowment for the Arts honored him with the NEA Jazz Masters Award...

    , 91, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     jazz pianist. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/arts/music/18jones.html
  • Oswaldo López Arellano
    Oswaldo López Arellano
    Oswaldo Enrique López Arellano was a two-time President of Honduras, first from 1963 to 1971 and again from 1972 to 1975. He gained power both times via military force....

    , 88, Honduran
    Honduras
    Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...

     politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , President
    President of Honduras
    This page lists the Presidents of Honduras.Colonial Honduras declared its independence from Spain on 15 September 1821. From 5 January 1822 to 1 July 1823, Honduras was part of the First Mexican Empire of Agustín de Iturbide....

     (1963–1971, 1972–1975), prostate cancer
    Prostate cancer
    Prostate cancer is a form of cancer that develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. Most prostate cancers are slow growing; however, there are cases of aggressive prostate cancers. The cancer cells may metastasize from the prostate to other parts of the body, particularly...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/world/americas/19lopez.html
  • Stephen Perry
    Stephen Perry (writer)
    Stephen J. Perry was an American writer of animated cartoons and comic books.-Biography:Perry wrote for the ThunderCats and Silverhawks television shows in the 1980s, as well as the comic book series Timespirits and ThunderCats, among others.In 2008 Perry was diagnosed with bladder cancer which...

    , 55, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     television writer (ThunderCats
    ThunderCats
    ThunderCats is an American animated television series that was produced by Rankin/Bass Productions debuting in 1984, based on the characters created by Tobin "Ted" Wolf. The series follows the adventures of a group of cat-like humanoid aliens...

    , SilverHawks
    Silverhawks
    SilverHawks is an American animated television series developed by Rankin/Bass and distributed by Lorimar-Telepictures in 1986. The animation was provided by Japanese studio Pacific Animation Corporation. In total, 65 episodes were made...

    ), homicide
    Homicide
    Homicide refers to the act of a human killing another human. Murder, for example, is a type of homicide. It can also describe a person who has committed such an act, though this use is rare in modern English...

    . http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/jun/06/na-a-promising-career-a-downward-spiral/news-breaking/ (body discovered on this date)

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  • Harry Aleman
    Harry Aleman
    Harry "The Hook" Aleman was a Chicago mobster who was one of most feared enforcers for the Chicago Outfit during the 1970s. Aleman got the nickname "Hook" from his boxing career in high school.-Early life:...

    , 71, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     gangster
    Gangster
    A gangster is a criminal who is a member of a gang. Some gangs are considered to be part of organized crime. Gangsters are also called mobsters, a term derived from mob and the suffix -ster....

     and murderer, lung cancer
    Lung cancer
    Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary...

    . http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/05/mob-hit-man-harry-aleman-dies-in-prison.html
  • Gabriel Bien-Aimé
    Gabriel Bien-Aime
    Gabriel Bien-Aimé was a former Minister of National Education of Haiti. He was born in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti. From 1994 to 2004 he served as the General Director of Ministry of Religious Affairs. After leaving this post he started Fondespoir, a microfinance organization, in 2001...

    , Haiti
    Haiti
    Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...

    an politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , Minister of Education (2006–2008), heart attack. http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/16/1632932/presumed-haitian-presidential.html
  • Armand Caouette
    Armand Caouette
    Armand Caouette was a Social Credit Party member of the Canadian House of Commons. His career included the fields of sales and air-conditioning....

    , 64, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , Member of Parliament (1974–1980). http://www.cfem.ca/articles/20100516000615/deces_armand_caouette.html (French)
  • Juan José Carbó
    Juan José Carbó
    Juan José Carbó Gatignol was a Spanish cartoonist and one of the great masters of Spanish comics, who won the 2005 Universidad de Alicante "premio Notario del Humor" , and signed all his Illustrations with his pseudonym, Carbó...

    , 83, Spanish
    Spain
    Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

     cartoonist
    Cartoonist
    A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...

    . http://www.lacarceldepapel.com/2010/05/16/adios-a-carbo/ (Spanish)
  • Moshe Greenberg
    Moshe Greenberg
    Moshe Greenberg was an American Jewish rabbi, Bible scholar, and professor emeritus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.-Biography:...

    , 81, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     rabbi
    Rabbi
    In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew word רבי , meaning "My Master" , which is the way a student would address a master of Torah...

     and biblical scholar. http://jta.org/news/article/2010/05/17/2394835/preeminent-biblical-scholar-dies
  • Christian Habicht
    Christian Habicht
    Christian Habicht was a German actor.-Plays:* Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit* Die Sanfte* Popcorn* An der Arche um acht, Stück: Ulrich Hub* Das Katzenhaus...

    , 57, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

    , heart attack. http://www.ad-hoc-news.de/dresdner-theater-trauert-um-christian-habicht--/de/News/21306398 (German)
  • Besian Idrizaj
    Besian Idrizaj
    Besian Idrizaj was an Austrian professional football player who last played as a striker for Swansea City. He was ethnic Albanian.He died of a suspected heart attack on 15 May 2010 at the age of 22.-Liverpool:...

    , 22, Austria
    Austria
    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

    n footballer, heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://www.clickliverpool.com/sport/liverpool-fc/129122-ex-liverpool-fc-striker-dies-of-a-heart-attack.html
  • Loris Kessel
    Loris Kessel
    Loris Kessel was a racing driver from Switzerland. He was born in Lugano and died in Montagnola following a long illness.He participated in six Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 2 May 1976...

    , 60, Swiss
    Switzerland
    Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

     racing driver, leukemia
    Leukemia
    Leukemia or leukaemia is a type of cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal increase of immature white blood cells called "blasts". Leukemia is a broad term covering a spectrum of diseases...

    . http://www.blick.ch/sport/formel1/schweizer-f1-pilot-loris-kessel-gestorben-146839 (German)
  • Archduke Rudolf of Austria, 90, Austria
    Austria
    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

    n nobleman, youngest son of Emperor
    Emperor of Austria
    The Emperor of Austria was a hereditary imperial title and position proclaimed in 1804 by the Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, and continually held by him and his heirs until the last emperor relinquished power in 1918. The emperors retained the title of...

     Charles I and Zita of Bourbon-Parma
    Zita of Bourbon-Parma
    Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma was the wife of Emperor Charles of Austria...

    . http://listetirol.wordpress.com/2010/05/16/erzherzog-rudolf-ist-in-der-schweiz-verstorben/ (German)
  • John Shepherd-Barron
    John Shepherd-Barron
    John Adrian Shepherd-Barron, OBE was a Scottish inventor, who pioneered the development of the cash machine, sometimes referred to as the Automated Teller Machine or ATM.-Early life:...

    , 84, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     inventor, invented the Automatic Teller Machine. http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries/Obituary-John-ShepherdBarron.6303157.jp
  • Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
    Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
    Bhairon Singh Shekhawat was the 11th Vice-President of India. He served in that position from August 2002, when he was elected to a five-year term by the electoral college following the death of Krishan Kant, until he resigned on July 21, 2007, after losing the presidential election to Pratibha...

    , 86, India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

    n politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , Vice-President
    Vice-President of India
    The Vice-President of India is the second-highest ranking government official in the executive branch of the Government of India, after the President...

     (2002–2007), respiratory infection. http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfeed/jaipur/Former-VP-Bhairon-Singh-Shekhawat-passes-away/Article1-543908.aspx

14

  • Frank J. Dodd
    Frank J. Dodd
    Frank J. "Pat" Dodd was an American businessman and Democratic Party politician who served as President of the New Jersey Senate from 1974 to 1975.-Early life:...

    , 72, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , President of the New Jersey Senate
    New Jersey Senate
    The New Jersey Senate was established as the upper house of the New Jersey Legislature by the Constitution of 1844, replacing the Legislative Council. From 1844 until 1965 New Jersey's counties elected one Senator, each. Under the 1844 Constitution the term of office was three years. The 1947...

     (1974–1975). http://www.app.com/article/20100515/NEWS03/100515061/Former-NJ-Senate-president-Frank-Dodd-dies-at-72
  • Goh Keng Swee
    Goh Keng Swee
    Goh Keng Swee was the second Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore between 1973 and 1984, and a Member of Parliament for the Kreta Ayer constituency for a quarter of a century. Born in Malacca in the Straits Settlements into a Peranakan family, he came to Singapore at the age of two years...

    , 91, Singapore
    Singapore
    Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

    an politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , Deputy Prime Minister
    Prime Minister of Singapore
    The Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore is the head of the government of the Republic of Singapore. The President of Singapore appoints as Prime Minister a Member of Parliament who, in his opinion, is most likely to command the confidence of a majority of MPs.The office of Prime Minister...

     (1968–1985), after long illness. http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+News/Singapore/Story/A1Story20100523-217973.html
  • Norman Hand
    Norman Hand
    Norman L. Hand was an American football defensive tackle in the NFL. He last played with the New York Giants in 2004. He also played with the Seattle Seahawks, the New Orleans Saints, the San Diego Chargers and the Miami Dolphins...

    , 37, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     football
    American football
    American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

     player (San Diego Chargers
    San Diego Chargers
    The San Diego Chargers are a professional American football team based in San Diego, California. they were members of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

    , New Orleans Saints
    New Orleans Saints
    The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. They are members of the South Division of the National Football Conference of the National Football League ....

    ), heart disease
    Heart disease
    Heart disease, cardiac disease or cardiopathy is an umbrella term for a variety of diseases affecting the heart. , it is the leading cause of death in the United States, England, Canada and Wales, accounting for 25.4% of the total deaths in the United States.-Types:-Coronary heart disease:Coronary...

    . http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5189876
  • Rūta Jokubonienė
    Rūta Jokubonienė
    Rūta Birutė Jokubonienė was a Lithuanian textile artist.In 1954, she graduated from the Lithuanian Institute of Fine Arts where she studied with Balčikonis J. Sofia Veiverytė. In 1954-1962, she worked in a factory in Kaunas, in 1962-1985 at the P. Ziberto silk factory in Kaunas, and in 1985-1990...

    , 80, Lithuania
    Lithuania
    Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

    n textile artist
    Textile arts
    Textile arts are those arts and crafts that use plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to construct practical or decorative objects.Textiles have been a fundamental part of human life since the beginning of civilization, and the methods and materials used to make them have expanded enormously, while...

    . http://www.bernardinai.lt/straipsnis/2010-05-17-mire-grafike-ir-tekstiles-dailininke-b-jokuboniene/44992 (Lithuanian)
  • David Maimon
    David Maimon
    David Maimon was an Israeli general of Yemenite origin. He held various posts including military governor of the Gaza Strip, head of the Israel Prison Service and president of the military court of appeals.-References:...

    , 81, Israel
    Israel
    The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

    i general
    General
    A general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given....

    , head of Israel Prison Service
    Israel Prison Service
    The Israel Prison Service , commonly known in Israel by its acronym Shabas , is the prison service of Israel. It is responsible for maintaining civilian prisons in Israel, as well as detention centers for security prisoners. It is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Public Security...

    . http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/186289
  • Fred O'Donovan
    Fred O'Donovan
    Fred O'Donovan was an Irish theatre producer and businessman. He worked and associated with, Seán O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw, Peter O'Toole, Maureen Potter and Siobhán McKenna, amongst others....

    , 80, Irish
    Republic of Ireland
    Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

     theatre producer, Chairman of RTÉ Authority (1981–1985). http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0515/1224270463180.html
  • Skip Away
    Skip Away
    Skip Away , a gray Thoroughbred race horse, was named America's Champion 3 Year Old Male in 1996 and twice named America's Champion Handicap Horse...

    , 17, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     thoroughbred
    Thoroughbred
    The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

     racehorse
    Horse racing
    Horse racing is an equestrian sport that has a long history. Archaeological records indicate that horse racing occurred in ancient Babylon, Syria, and Egypt. Both chariot and mounted horse racing were events in the ancient Greek Olympics by 648 BC...

    , heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/sports/15sportsbriefs-skipaway.html
  • Frederik van Zyl Slabbert
    Frederik van Zyl Slabbert
    Frederik van Zyl Slabbert was a South African political analyst, businessman and politician. He is best known for having been the leader of the official opposition — the Progressive Federal Party — in the House of Assembly from 1979 to 1986.-Early life, education and academic career:Born in...

    , 70, South Africa
    South Africa
    The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

    n politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , complications
    Complication (medicine)
    Complication, in medicine, is an unfavorable evolution of a disease, a health condition or a medical treatment. The disease can become worse in its severity or show a higher number of signs, symptoms or new pathological changes, become widespread throughout the body or affect other organ systems. A...

     from liver disease
    Liver disease
    Liver disease is a broad term describing any single number of diseases affecting the liver.-Diseases:* Hepatitis, inflammation of the liver, caused mainly by various viruses but also by some poisons , autoimmunity or hereditary conditions...

    . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/14/AR2010051405409.html

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  • Rafael Sanus Abad
    Rafael Sanus Abad
    Rafael Sanus Abad was the Roman Catholic titular bishop of Germaniciana and auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Valencia, Spain....

    , 78, Spanish
    Spain
    Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

     Roman Catholic prelate
    Prelate
    A prelate is a high-ranking member of the clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin prælatus, the past participle of præferre, which means "carry before", "be set above or over" or "prefer"; hence, a prelate is one set over others.-Related...

    , Auxiliary Bishop
    Auxiliary bishop
    An auxiliary bishop, in the Roman Catholic Church, is an additional bishop assigned to a diocese because the diocesan bishop is unable to perform his functions, the diocese is so extensive that it requires more than one bishop to administer, or the diocese is attached to a royal or imperial office...

     of Valencia (1989–2000). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bsanu.html
  • Ashaari Mohammad
    Ashaari Mohammad
    Haji Ashaari Mohammad was the leader of the Malaysian-based Islamic religious sect Al-Arqam. The sect was banned by in Malaysia by the federal government on 21 October 1994...

    , 73, Malaysian spiritual leader
    Spiritual leader
    Spiritual leader is a form of title that is used to refer to religious leaders.In Buddhism, spiritual leaders are usually the people who have attained high level of spiritual awareness. Those spiritual teachers can guide people on their path toward spiritual awakening.Spiritual Leader may be a...

    , respiratory infection. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/5/13/nation/20100513185130&sec=nation
  • Ruth Chew
    Ruth Chew
    Ruth Chew was an American children's author and illustrator of over 30 children's books, most of which were juvenile fantasy. The books were early-reader chapter books and usually centered around magic...

    , 90, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     children's author
    Children's literature
    Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...

    , pneumonia
    Pneumonia
    Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—especially affecting the microscopic air sacs —associated with fever, chest symptoms, and a lack of air space on a chest X-ray. Pneumonia is typically caused by an infection but there are a number of other causes...

    . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/15/AR2010051503358.html
  • Paul Garabedian
    Paul Garabedian
    Paul Roesel Garabedian was an applied mathematician and numerical analyst. Garabedian was the Director-Division of Computational Fluid Dynamics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University...

    . 82, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     mathematician
    Mathematician
    A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/us/03garabedian.html
  • Eddie Garrett
    Eddie Garrett
    Eddie Garrett was an American actor best known for his role on the NBC television series, Quincy, M.E., in which he portrayed a silver-haired photographer for the Los Angeles coroner's office in more than 100 episodes of the series.Garrett was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on November...

    , 82, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

     (Looking for Mr. Goodbar
    Looking for Mr. Goodbar (film)
    Looking for Mr. Goodbar is a 1977 film written for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks and starring Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, Richard Gere, and also features Tom Berenger...

    , Quincy, M.E.
    Quincy, M.E.
    Quincy, M.E., also called Quincy, is a United States television series from Universal Studios that aired from October 3, 1976, to September 5, 1983, on NBC...

    ). http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thedesertsun/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=142897107
  • Cinthia Régia Gomes do Livramento
    Cinthia Régia Gomes do Livramento
    Cinthia Régia Gomes do Livramento was a Brazilian politician. She served as the Education Secretary of the Brazilian state of Amazonas until her death in 2010....

    , 46, Brazil
    Brazil
    Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

    ian politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , Education Secretary (Amazonas), air crash. http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=356908&CategoryId=14090
  • Walter Klimmek
    Walter Klimmek
    Walter Klimmek was a German football defender, coal miner and firefighter. He played for Schalke 04 and was West German champion and German cup winner. He was 91 and is buried in Aschheim.-References:**...

    , 91, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     footballer. http://www.schalke04.de/aktuell/news/einzelansicht/artikel/knappen-trauern-um-walter-klimmek.html (German)
  • Klaus Kotter
    Klaus Kotter
    Klaus Kotter was a West German-German tax consultant who served as the third president of the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing , serving as interim from 1978 to 1980, then as president from 1980 to 1994.Born in Prien am Chiemsee, Kotter became treasurer of the West German...

    , 75, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     bobsleigh
    Bobsleigh
    Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of two or four make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled that are combined to calculate the final score....

     official. http://www.focus.de/sport/wintersport/bob-langjaehriger-bob-praesident-kotter-gestorben_aid_508047.html (German)
  • F. James McDonald
    F. James McDonald
    Francis James McDonald was an American engineer and business executive who worked his way up through the ranks at General Motors, ultimately serving as its president and chief operating officer from 1981 to 1987 during the tenure of chairman and chief executive Roger Smith.McDonald was born in...

    , 87, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     businessman
    Businessperson
    A businessperson is someone involved in a particular undertaking of activities for the purpose of generating revenue from a combination of human, financial, or physical capital. An entrepreneur is an example of a business person...

    , President of General Motors
    General Motors
    General Motors Company , commonly known as GM, formerly incorporated as General Motors Corporation, is an American multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan and the world's second-largest automaker in 2010...

     (1981–1987). http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/business/16mcdonald.html
  • Peter Provan
    Peter Provan
    Peter Provan was an Australian professional rugby league footballer for St. George Dragons, Balmain Tigers and Australia....

    , 73, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n rugby league
    Rugby league
    Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

     footballer, Balmain Tigers
    Balmain Tigers
    The Balmain Tigers are a rugby league football club based in the inner-western Sydney suburb of Balmain. They were a founding member of the New South Wales Rugby League and one of the most successful in the history of the premiership, with eleven titles...

     premiership captain (1969), after long illness. http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-sport/tigers-honour-balmain-great-provan-20100514-v2uf.html
  • Rosa Rio
    Rosa Rio
    Rosa Rio , born Elizabeth Raub, was an American organist who began her career as a silent film accompanist. She became a leading organist on network radio and continued to perform until age 107...

    , 107, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     organist
    Organist
    An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ. An organist may play solo organ works, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumental soloists...

     (Tampa Theatre
    Tampa Theatre
    The Tampa Theatre and Office Building is a historic U.S. theater and city landmark in the Uptown District of downtown Tampa, Florida. On January 3, 1978, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places....

    ). http://southshore2.tbo.com/content/2010/may/14/141031/rosa-rio-beloved-tampa-theatre-organist-dies/

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  • Dieter Bock
    Dieter Bock
    Dieter Bock was a German lawyer and tax consultant turned businessman. He was one of the wealthiest Germans before he choked to death in the Atlantic Kempinski luxury hotel in Hamburg. He was 71.-References:...

    , 71, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     businessman and multimillionaire, choking
    Choking
    Choking is the mechanical obstruction of the flow of air from the environment into the lungs. Choking prevents breathing, and can be partial or complete, with partial choking allowing some, although inadequate, flow of air into the lungs. Prolonged or complete choking results in asphyxia which...

    . http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64Q3RZ20100527
  • Phyllis Hodges Boyce
    Phyllis Hodges Boyce
    Phyllis Hodges Boyce was an American actress, appearing in movies and television serials. She was often credited as Phyllis Douglas....

    , 73, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     actress (Gone with the Wind
    Gone with the Wind (film)
    Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American historical epic film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer-winning 1936 novel of the same name. It was produced by David O. Selznick and directed by Victor Fleming from a screenplay by Sidney Howard...

    , Star Trek
    Star Trek: The Original Series
    Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry, produced by Desilu Productions . Star Trek was telecast on NBC from September 8, 1966, through June 3, 1969...

    ). http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thedesertsun/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=142729497
  • Charlie Francis
    Charlie Francis
    Charles Merrick "Charlie" Francis was a sprint coach most noteworthy for being the trainer of sprinter Ben Johnson, the first competitor to be stripped of an Olympic gold medal for using banned drugs, and sprinters Angella Issajenko, Mark McKoy, and Desai Williams...

    , 61, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     track coach
    Coach (sport)
    In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.-Staff:...

    , lymphoma
    Lymphoma
    Lymphoma is a cancer in the lymphatic cells of the immune system. Typically, lymphomas present as a solid tumor of lymphoid cells. Treatment might involve chemotherapy and in some cases radiotherapy and/or bone marrow transplantation, and can be curable depending on the histology, type, and stage...

    . http://www.thestar.com/sports/article/808516--track-coach-charlie-francis-dies-at-61
  • Edith Keller-Herrmann
    Edith Keller-Herrmann
    Edith Keller-Herrmann was a German woman chess master. She was born in Dresden.In August 1939, Keller , along with Klaus Junge , Wolfgang Unzicker , Rudolf Kunath and Karl Krbavac , played in Jugendschachwoche Fürstenwalde near Berlin...

    , 88, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     chess Grandmaster. http://www.zeitschriftschach.de/aktuell/aktuell.htm (German)
  • Sione Manu'uli Luani, 50, Tonga
    Tonga
    Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga , is a state and an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising 176 islands scattered over of ocean in the South Pacific...

    n politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , Governor
    Governor
    A governor is a governing official, usually the executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state...

     of Vavaʻu (since 2009). http://www.matangitonga.to/article/tonganews/royalty/20100512_tonga_luani_death.shtml
  • Allan Manings
    Allan Manings
    Allan Manings was an American television producer and comedy writer. He was active in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and was best known for his work in co-creating with his wife, actress Whitney Blake, One Day at a Time, as well as serving as producer of the Bud Yorkin-Norman Lear Tandem show,...

    , 86, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     television writer
    Screenwriting
    Screenwriting is the art and craft of writing scripts for mass media such as feature films, television productions or video games. It is a freelance profession....

     (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
    Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
    Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In is an American sketch comedy television program which ran for 140 episodes from January 22, 1968, to May 14, 1973. It was hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin and was broadcast over NBC...

    , Good Times
    Good Times
    Good Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the CBS television network. It was created by Eric Monte and Michael Evans, and developed by Norman Lear, the series' primary executive producer...

    ), cardiac arrest
    Cardiac arrest
    Cardiac arrest, is the cessation of normal circulation of the blood due to failure of the heart to contract effectively...

    . http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-allan-manings-20100515,0,4001258.story
  • Joëlle van Noppen
    Joëlle van Noppen
    Joëlle van Noppen was a Dutch singer.From 1997 to 2000, Joëlle was a member of the Dutch girl group WOW!. Until her death she was still active to a small extent as a cabaret singer....

    , 30, Dutch
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

     singer, air crash
    Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771
    Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 was a scheduled international passenger flight that crashed on 12 May 2010 at about 06:10 local time on approach to Tripoli International Airport...

    . http://www.showbiznewz.nl/artikel_9665_zangeres-joelle-van-noppen-omgekomen-bij-vliegtuigramp-libie.html
  • Bree O'Mara
    Bree O'Mara
    Bridgid "Bree" O'Mara was an Irish-South African novelist, ballet dancer, TV producer and air hostess who was killed in the crash of Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771.-Early life:...

    , 42, South Africa
    South Africa
    The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

    n novelist, air crash
    Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771
    Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 was a scheduled international passenger flight that crashed on 12 May 2010 at about 06:10 local time on approach to Tripoli International Airport...

    . http://news.book.co.za/blog/2010/05/13/irish-south-african-author-bree-omara-killed-in-libya-plane-crash/
  • Antonio Ozores
    Antonio Ozores
    Antonio Ozores Puchol was a Spanish actor.He died on 12 May 2010, after a long illness....

    , 81, Spanish
    Spain
    Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

     actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

    , cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Muere/actor/Antonio/Ozores/elpepucul/20100512elpepucul_9/Tes (Spanish)

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  • Robert H. Burris
    Robert H. Burris
    Robert H. Burris was a professor in the Biochemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1961...

    , 96, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     biochemist
    Biochemist
    Biochemists are scientists who are trained in biochemistry. Typical biochemists study chemical processes and chemical transformations in living organisms. The prefix of "bio" in "biochemist" can be understood as a fusion of "biological chemist."-Role:...

    . http://www.news.wisc.edu/18085
  • John Fugh
    John Fugh
    Major General John Liu Fugh was the first Chinese American to attain general officer status in the U.S. Army. He was the Judge Advocate General of the U.S...

    , 75, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     army officier, Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army, heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/11/AR2010051104818.html
  • Brian Gibson
    Brian Gibson (footballer)
    Brian Gibson was an English former professional footballer born in Huddersfield, who played as a defender in the Football League for Huddersfield Town.-References:...

    , 82, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     footballer. http://www.examiner.co.uk/huddersfield-town-fc/huddersfield-town-news/2010/05/12/former-town-defender-brian-gibson-dies-at-82-86081-26425553/2/
  • Timothy Grubb
    Timothy Grubb
    Timothy Grubb was a British show jumping champion. In 1984 he participated at the Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles where he won a silver medal in team jumping with the British team.He was born in Grantham....

    , 55, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

    -born American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     show jumper
    Show jumping
    Show jumping, also known as "stadium jumping," "open jumping," or "jumpers," is a member of a family of English riding equestrian events that also includes dressage, eventing, hunters, and equitation. Jumping classes commonly are seen at horse shows throughout the world, including the Olympics...

    , Olympic silver medallist (1984 Summer Olympics
    1984 Summer Olympics
    The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1984...

    ), heart failure. http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/397/297904.html
  • Rauf Jabbarov
    Rauf Jabbarov
    Rauf Jabbarov was an Azerbaijani boxing manager and trainer who handled the careers of Ali Ismailov, Rovshan Huseynov, Rashad Ismailov, Fuad Alakbarov and Vugar Alakbarov.-Biography:...

    , 74, Azerbaijan
    Azerbaijan
    Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...

    i boxing
    Boxing
    Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

     manager, myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://xeber.azeri.net/Emekdar_mesqci_Rauf_Cabbarov_vefat_etdi-n7232.html (Azerbaijani)
  • Maciej Kozłowski
    Maciej Kozłowski
    Maciej Kozlowski was a Polish actor, the graduate from the National Film School in Łódź. Mostly known from his roles in Kingsajz, Psy, Kiler, With Fire and Sword and Schindler's List and TV series M jak miłość. Defender in Polish Artists Football Team...

    , 52, Polish
    Poland
    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

     actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

    , complication
    Complication (medicine)
    Complication, in medicine, is an unfavorable evolution of a disease, a health condition or a medical treatment. The disease can become worse in its severity or show a higher number of signs, symptoms or new pathological changes, become widespread throughout the body or affect other organ systems. A...

    s of hepatitis C
    Hepatitis C
    Hepatitis C is an infectious disease primarily affecting the liver, caused by the hepatitis C virus . The infection is often asymptomatic, but chronic infection can lead to scarring of the liver and ultimately to cirrhosis, which is generally apparent after many years...

    . http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1,80276,7867184,Zmarl_Maciej_Kozlowski__znany_aktor_teatralny_i_filmowy.html (Polish)
  • Richard LaMotta
    Richard LaMotta
    Richard LaMotta was the inventor and principal promoter of the Chipwich ice cream sandwich.In 1981, LaMotta invented the Chipwich and began a guerilla marketing campaign, in which he trained and enlisted 100 street cart vendors to sell the Chipwich in New York City. The campaign established...

    , 67, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     inventor of the Chipwich ice cream sandwich
    Chipwich
    A Chipwich is an ice cream sandwich made of ice cream between two chocolate chip cookies. Sometimes, the sandwich is rolled in chocolate chips which stick to the ice cream. The original Chipwich was invented by Richard LaMotta in New York City...

    , heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/business/16lamotta.html
  • Bud Mahurin
    Bud Mahurin
    Colonel Walker Melville "Bud" Mahurin was a retired officer of the United States Air Force . During World War II, while serving in the United States Army Air Forces , he was a noted flying ace....

    , 91, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     flying ace
    Flying ace
    A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The actual number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an "ace" has varied, but is usually considered to be five or more...

    , complication
    Complication (medicine)
    Complication, in medicine, is an unfavorable evolution of a disease, a health condition or a medical treatment. The disease can become worse in its severity or show a higher number of signs, symptoms or new pathological changes, become widespread throughout the body or affect other organ systems. A...

    s from a stroke
    Stroke
    A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...

    . http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100514/NEWS/5140311
  • Emmanuel Ngobese
    Emmanuel Ngobese
    Emmanuel Asanda "Scara" Ngobese was a South African soccer player who last played as a midfielder for United FC in the National First Division...

    , 29, South Africa
    South Africa
    The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

    n footballer, tuberculosis
    Tuberculosis
    Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body...

    . http://www.witness.co.za/index.php?showcontent&global%5B_id%5D=40464
  • Jeff Shaw
    Jeff Shaw (politician)
    Jeffrey William "Jeff" Shaw, QC was an Australian lawyer, judge and former Attorney General of New South Wales.-Early life and education:...

    , 60, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

     and jurist
    Jurist
    A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage...

    , NSW Attorney General (1995–2000), Supreme Court
    Supreme Court of New South Wales
    The Supreme Court of New South Wales is the highest state court of the Australian State of New South Wales...

     judge
    Judge
    A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as part of a panel of judges. The powers, functions, method of appointment, discipline, and training of judges vary widely across different jurisdictions. The judge is supposed to conduct the trial impartially and in an open...

     (2003–2004), pneumonia
    Pneumonia
    Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—especially affecting the microscopic air sacs —associated with fever, chest symptoms, and a lack of air space on a chest X-ray. Pneumonia is typically caused by an infection but there are a number of other causes...

    . http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/Prod/parlment/members.nsf/0/9CD619A8E185257A4A25672E0002E1CC
  • Doris Eaton Travis
    Doris Eaton Travis
    Doris Eaton Travis was a Broadway and film performer, dance instructor, and author. She was also the last surviving Ziegfeld girl.Travis began performing onstage as a young child, and made her Broadway debut at the age of 13...

    , 106, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     performer, last surviving Ziegfeld girl
    Ziegfeld girl
    Ziegfeld Girls were the chorus girls from Florenz Ziegfeld's theatrical spectaculars known as the Ziegfeld Follies , which were based on the Folies Bergère of Paris....

    , aneurysm
    Aneurysm
    An aneurysm or aneurism is a localized, blood-filled balloon-like bulge in the wall of a blood vessel. Aneurysms can commonly occur in arteries at the base of the brain and an aortic aneurysm occurs in the main artery carrying blood from the left ventricle of the heart...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/arts/dance/12travis.html
  • Bob Watt, 82, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     ice hockey
    Ice hockey
    Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

     player, Olympic
    Olympic Games
    The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

     gold medalist (1952 Winter Olympics
    1952 Winter Olympics
    The 1952 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VI Olympic Winter Games, took place in Oslo, Norway, from 14 to 25 February 1952. Discussions about Oslo hosting the Winter Olympic Games began as early as 1935; the city wanted to host the 1948 Games, but World War II made that impossible...

    ) . http://www.legacy.com/CAN/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=142772938

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  • Ike Franklin Andrews
    Ike Franklin Andrews
    Ike Franklin Andrews was an American politician. He served as a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina's Fourth Congressional District between 1973 and 1985, when he was defeated for reelection by Republican Bill Cobey.-Biography:Born in Bonlee, North Carolina, Andrews attended local...

    , 84, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , U.S. Representative
    United States House of Representatives
    The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

     from North Carolina
    North Carolina
    North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...

     (1973–1985). http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/05/10/476336/former-congressman-ike-andrews.html
  • Albert W. Barney
    Albert W. Barney
    Albert W. Barney was the chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court from 1974 until 1982. As a superior court judge, Barney presided over Vermont's last death penalty case in 1953.-Early life and education:...

    , 89, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     jurist
    Jurist
    A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage...

    , Chief Justice
    Chief Justice
    The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...

     of the Vermont Supreme Court
    Vermont Supreme Court
    The Vermont Supreme Court is the highest judicial authority of the U.S. state of Vermont and is one of seven state courts of Vermont.The Court consists of a chief justice and four associate justices; the Court mostly hears appeals of cases that have been decided by other courts...

     (1974–1982). http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20100512/THISJUSTIN/100519980
  • Jack Birkett
    Jack Birkett
    Jack Birkett was a British dancer, mime artist, actor and singer, best known for his work on stage as a member of Lindsay Kemp's theatre company, and in the films of Derek Jarman. He was often billed as Orlando or The Incredible Orlando. Most of his best-known work was done when he was totally...

    , 75, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     dancer, singer and actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/may/28/jack-birkett-obituary
  • Giuliana Camerino
    Giuliana Camerino
    Giuliana Camerino was an Italian fashion designer who founded the Roberta di Camerino fashion house in Venice, the only major Italian fashion brand to be based in the historic seafaring and trading city. The label is principally known for its velvet handbags, though it has also produced...

    , 90, Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     handbag
    Handbag
    A handbag, or purse in American English, is a handled medium-to-large bag that is often fashionably designed, typically used by women, to hold personal items such as wallet/coins, keys, cosmetics, a hairbrush, pepper spray, cigarettes, mobile phone etc....

     designer
    Designer
    A designer is a person who designs. More formally, a designer is an agent that "specifies the structural properties of a design object". In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, such as consumer products, processes, laws, games and graphics, is referred to as a...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/fashion/17camerino.html
  • Charles Currey
    Charles Currey
    Charles Currey was a British sailor. He participated at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki where he won a silver medal in Finn class.-References:...

    , 94, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     sailor
    Yacht racing
    Yacht racing is the sport of competitive yachting.While sailing groups organize the most active and popular competitive yachting, other boating events are also held world-wide: speed motorboat racing; competitive canoeing, kayaking, and rowing; model yachting; and navigational contests Yacht racing...

    , silver medallist at the 1952 Summer Olympics
    1952 Summer Olympics
    The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Helsinki, Finland in 1952. Helsinki had been earlier given the 1940 Summer Olympics, which were cancelled due to World War II...

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7135285.ece
  • Frank Frazetta
    Frank Frazetta
    Frank Frazetta was an American fantasy and science fiction artist, noted for work in comic books, paperback book covers, paintings, posters, LP record album covers and other media...

    , 82, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     fantasy
    Fantasy
    Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

     and science fiction
    Science fiction
    Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

     artist
    Artist
    An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

    , stroke
    Stroke
    A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...

    . http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/frank-frazetta-fantasy-illustrator-dies-at-82/
  • Bill Hook
    Bill Hook
    Bill Hook born in New Rochelle, New York, was a Chess master and the Captain of the British Virgin Islands chess team....

    , 84, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

    -born chess
    Chess
    Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

     player for British Virgin Islands
    British Virgin Islands
    The Virgin Islands, often called the British Virgin Islands , is a British overseas territory and overseas territory of the European Union, located in the Caribbean to the east of Puerto Rico. The islands make up part of the Virgin Islands archipelago, the remaining islands constituting the U.S...

    . http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/twic809.html#21
  • Margit Hvammen
    Margit Hvammen
    Margit Hvammen was a Norwegian alpine skier.She competed at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, where she placed 7th in the downhill, 18th in giant slalom, and 18th in slalom. She represented the club Geilo IL. She died on 10 May 2010.-References:...

    , 77, Norwegian
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

     Olympic
    Olympic Games
    The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

     Alpine skier
    Alpine skiing
    Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four...

    . http://www.aguiden.no/paperadsobi/568470.pdf (Norwegian)
  • Mac Mohan
    Mac Mohan
    Mohan Makijany , popularly known as Mac Mohan, was a well-known Indian character actor in Hindi language films...

    , 71, India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

    n actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

     (Sholay
    Sholay
    Sholay is a 1975 Indian action-adventure film produced by G.P. Sippy and directed by his son Ramesh Sippy. It is considered among the greatest films in the history of Indian cinema. Released on 15 August 1975, it stars Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Sanjeev Kumar, Jaya Bhaduri and...

    ), lung cancer
    Lung cancer
    Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary...

    . http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Entertainment/Bollywood/News-Interviews/Sambha-well-miss-you/articleshow/5915953.cms
  • Volodymyr Ploskina
    Volodymyr Ploskina
    Volodymyr Ivanovych Ploskina was a Ukrainian professional footballer.-Career:Ploskina began his professional career in 1969, before signing with Chornomorets Odesa in 1975. After retiring as a player, Ploskina became a youth coach with Shakhtar Donetsk.-References:...

    , 55, Ukrainian
    Ukraine
    Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

     football manager
    Manager (association football)
    In association football, a manager is responsible for running a football club or a national team. The manager of a professional club is responsible directly to the club president. The position of manager is almost exclusively used in British football...

     and former footballer. http://shakhtar.com/en/news/13161

9

  • Danger Ashipala
    Danger Ashipala
    Ruben Michael Ningilanayi Ashipala or Danger Ashipala was a Namibian police officer, military commander and military officer. Ashipala was a military commander in the 1970s and 1980s with the People's Liberation Army of Namibia, the armed wing of SWAPO during the Namibian War of Independence...

    , 62, Namibia
    Namibia
    Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...

    n police
    Police
    The police is a personification of the state designated to put in practice the enforced law, protect property and reduce civil disorder in civilian matters. Their powers include the legitimized use of force...

     advisor. http://www.namibian.com.na/news/full-story/archive/2010/may/article/danger-ashipala-dies/
  • Erica Blasberg
    Erica Blasberg
    Erica Paige Blasberg was an American golfer who played on the LPGA Tour.-Early life:Blasberg was born in Orange, California, and raised in Corona, California. She attended Corona High School where she played on the boys' golf team.-Amateur career:As an amateur, Blasberg was the medalist at the...

    , 25, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     golfer
    Professional golfer
    In golf the distinction between amateurs and professionals is rigorously maintained. An amateur who breaches the rules of amateur status may lose his or her amateur status. A golfer who has lost his or her amateur status may not play in amateur competitions until amateur status has been reinstated;...

    , suicide
    Suicide
    Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...

    . http://msn.foxsports.com/golf/story/Erica-Blasberg-LPGA-player-dies-051010
  • Raymond Bouchex
    Raymond Bouchex
    Raymond Joseph Louis Bouchex was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Avignon, France....

    , 83, French
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

     Roman Catholic prelate
    Prelate
    A prelate is a high-ranking member of the clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin prælatus, the past participle of præferre, which means "carry before", "be set above or over" or "prefer"; hence, a prelate is one set over others.-Related...

    , Archbishop
    Archbishop
    An archbishop is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest , and bishop...

     of Avignon
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Avignon
    The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Avignon is an Archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church, in France. The diocese exercises jurisdiction over the territory embraced by the department of Vaucluse, in the Region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur...

     (1978–2002). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbouchex.html
  • Dean Cetrulo
    Dean Cetrulo
    Dean Cetrulo was an American Olympic fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team sabre event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.-References:...

    , 91, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     fencer
    Fencing
    Fencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games...

    , Olympic
    Olympic Games
    The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

     bronze medalist (1948 Summer Olympics
    1948 Summer Olympics
    The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in London, England, United Kingdom. After a 12-year hiatus because of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics since the 1936 Games in Berlin...

    ). http://obits.nj.com/obituaries/starledger/obituary.aspx?n=diaz-victor-cetrulo-dean&pid=142721009
  • Geoffrey Chapman
    Geoffrey Chapman
    Geoffrey Chapman was an Australian publisher. He was the founder of Geoffrey Chapman Ltd which published over 90 ecclesiastical titles.-Obituaries:**-References:...

    , 80, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n publisher. http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/reformed-catholics-publisher-of-choice-20100528-wlb4.html
  • Rita Childers
    Rita Childers
    Margaret "Rita" Childers was the second wife of Erskine Hamilton Childers, the fourth President of Ireland . She formerly worked as a press attaché in the British Embassy in Dublin...

    , 95, Irish
    Republic of Ireland
    Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

     politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , wife of President
    President of Ireland
    The President of Ireland is the head of state of Ireland. The President is usually directly elected by the people for seven years, and can be elected for a maximum of two terms. The presidency is largely a ceremonial office, but the President does exercise certain limited powers with absolute...

     Erskine Hamilton Childers
    Erskine Hamilton Childers
    Erskine Hamilton Childers served as the fourth President of Ireland from 1973 until his death in 1974. He was a Teachta Dála from 1938 until 1973...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7741796/Lives-Remembered.html
  • Zosima Davydov
    Zosima Davydov
    Zosima Davydov was the Russian Orthodox bishop of Yakutsk and Lensk, Russia.Born as Igor Vasilyevich Davydov he received his monastic tonsure on 16 December 1991, aged 28. He was ordained as a bishop on 27 September 2004.He died in 2010, aged 46, from a heart attack.-References:...

    , 46, Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n Orthodox
    Russian Orthodox Church
    The Russian Orthodox Church or, alternatively, the Moscow Patriarchate The ROC is often said to be the largest of the Eastern Orthodox churches in the world; including all the autocephalous churches under its umbrella, its adherents number over 150 million worldwide—about half of the 300 million...

     prelate, Bishop
    Bishop
    A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

     of Yakutsk
    Yakutsk
    With a subarctic climate , Yakutsk is the coldest city, though not the coldest inhabited place, on Earth. Average monthly temperatures range from in July to in January. The coldest temperatures ever recorded on the planet outside Antarctica occurred in the basin of the Yana River to the northeast...

     and Lensk
    Lensk
    Lensk is a town and the administrative center of Lensky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the left bank of the Lena River, approximately west of Yakutsk, the capital of the republic. Population: -History:...

     (since 2004), heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/347494.html (Russian)
  • Hans Dijkstal
    Hans Dijkstal
    Henri Frans "Hans" Dijkstal was a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy . He served as Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister from 22 August 1994 until 3 August 1998...

    , 67, Dutch
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

     politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister
    Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the official Deputy of the Head of Government of the Netherlands. In the absence of the Prime Minister the deputy prime minister takes over his functions, such as chairing the Cabinet of the Netherlands...

     (1994–1998), cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://nos.nl/artikel/156361-vvder-hans-dijkstal-67-overleden.html (Dutch)
  • Francisco Andrés Escobar
    Francisco Andrés Escobar
    Francisco Andrés Escobar was an Salvadorian actor, writer and journalist. He studied Bachelor of Arts in Social Work and Political Science at the Universidad Centroamericana "Jose Simeon Cañas"....

    , 67, Salvadorian
    El Salvador
    El Salvador or simply Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country and in all of Central America...

     actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

    , journalist
    Journalist
    A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

     and writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

    . http://www.laprensagrafica.com/el-salvador/lodeldia/116203-fallece-escritor-francisco-escobar.html (Spanish)
  • Lena Horne
    Lena Horne
    Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer.Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the...

    , 92, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     singer and actress (Stormy Weather
    Stormy Weather (1943 film)
    Stormy Weather is a 1943 American musical film produced and released by 20th Century Fox. The film is one of two major Hollywood musicals produced in 1943 with primarily African-American casts, the other being MGM's Cabin in the Sky, and is considered a time capsule showcasing some of the top...

    , The Wiz
    The Wiz (film)
    The Wiz is a 1978 musical film produced by Motown Productions and Universal Pictures, and released by Universal on October 24, 1978. An urbanized retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz featuring an entirely African-American cast, The Wiz was adapted from the 1975 Broadway musical...

    ). http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/arts/music/10horne.html
  • Signe Johansson-Engdahl
    Signe Johansson-Engdahl
    Signe Dagmar Charlotta Johansson-Engdahl was a Swedish swimmer who competed in the Olympic games in 1924 in Paris. She competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics in diving, but did not win a medal, placing 5th. From the death of Carmelo Camet on July 22, 2007, until her own, she was believed to be the...

    , 104, Swedish
    Sweden
    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

     Olympic
    1924 Summer Olympics
    The 1924 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VIII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1924 in Paris, France...

     diver
    Diving
    Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...

    . http://www.sok.se/nyheter/nyheter/nyheter2009/varldensochsverigesaldstaolympierharavlidit.5.682fdfa31285af1755d800065744.html (Swedish)
  • Farzad Kamangar
    Farzad Kamangar
    Farzad Kamangar was a 32-year-old Iranian Kurdish teacher, poet, journalist, human rights activist and social worker from the city of Kamyaran, Iran who was executed on May 9, 2010. - The Accusations and the Courts :Kamangar was prosecuted on charges of mohareb "enmity towards God"...

    , 32, Iran
    Iran
    Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

    ian activist
    Activism
    Activism consists of intentional efforts to bring about social, political, economic, or environmental change. Activism can take a wide range of forms from writing letters to newspapers or politicians, political campaigning, economic activism such as boycotts or preferentially patronizing...

    , execution
    Capital punishment
    Capital punishment, the death penalty, or execution is the sentence of death upon a person by the state as a punishment for an offence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from the Latin capitalis, literally...

     by hanging
    Hanging
    Hanging is the lethal suspension of a person by a ligature. The Oxford English Dictionary states that hanging in this sense is "specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck", though it formerly also referred to crucifixion and death by impalement in which the body would remain...

    . http://www.astreetjournalist.com/2010/05/09/farzad-kamangar-and-4-other-political-prisoners-executed/
  • Craig Kauffman
    Craig Kauffman (artist)
    Craig Kauffman was an artist who has exhibited since 1951. Kauffman’s primarily abstract paintings and wall relief sculptures are included in over 20 museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Tate Modern, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, the...

    , 78, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

     and sculptor, complications from a stroke
    Stroke
    A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...

     and pneumonia
    Pneumonia
    Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—especially affecting the microscopic air sacs —associated with fever, chest symptoms, and a lack of air space on a chest X-ray. Pneumonia is typically caused by an infection but there are a number of other causes...

    . http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-craig-kauffman-20100512,0,6086833.story
  • Teruji Kogake
    Teruji Kogake
    ' was a Japanese triple jumper and sports administrator. He set a low-altitude world record in the triple jump in 1956 at the Japanese Olympic Trials, and finished eighth at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics while carrying an ankle injury.He retired early from the sport and became the track and field...

    , 77, Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

    ese Olympic
    Olympic Games
    The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

     athlete, liver failure
    Liver failure
    Acute liver failure is the appearance of severe complications rapidly after the first signs of liver disease , and indicates that the liver has sustained severe damage . The complications are hepatic encephalopathy and impaired protein synthesis...

    . http://www.iaaf.org/aboutiaaf/news/newsid=56698.html
  • Acharya Mahapragya, 89, India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

    n Jain religious leader
    Religion
    Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values. Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to...

    , supreme head of Svetambar Terapanth, cardiac arrest
    Cardiac arrest
    Cardiac arrest, is the cessation of normal circulation of the blood due to failure of the heart to contract effectively...

    . http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Tenth-Acharya-of-Jain-Swetembar-Terapanth-passes-away-/articleshow/5910971.cms
  • Otakar Motejl
    Otakar Motejl
    Otakar Motejl was a Czech lawyer and politician. He served as the Ombudsman of the Czech Republic from 2000 until his death in 2010. In 1998-2000 he served as the Minister of Justice.-Life:...

    , 77, Czech
    Czech Republic
    The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

     public official, Ombudsman
    Ombudsman
    An ombudsman is a person who acts as a trusted intermediary between an organization and some internal or external constituency while representing not only but mostly the broad scope of constituent interests...

     (since 2000), after short illness. http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/zpravy/czech-ombudsman-otakar-motejl-dies-aged-77/474807
  • Karl-Heinz Schnibbe
    Karl-Heinz Schnibbe
    Karl-Heinz Schnibbe was a former World War II resistance group member who, as a 17-year-old growing up in Nazi Germany in 1941, was an accomplice in a plan by three German teenagers, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , to distribute information to the citizens of Germany...

    , 86, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     partisian, World War II
    World War II
    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

     resistance fighter
    German Resistance
    The German resistance was the opposition by individuals and groups in Germany to Adolf Hitler or the National Socialist regime between 1933 and 1945. Some of these engaged in active plans to remove Adolf Hitler from power and overthrow his regime...

    . http://ostholstein.mediaquell.com/2010/05/11/hamburger-widerstandskaempfer-karl-heinz-schnibbe-gestorben-3243/ (German)
  • Edward Uhl
    Edward Uhl
    Edward Uhl was a United States Army Ordnance Officer who helped to develop the M1 portable rocket launcher, known as the bazooka....

    , 92, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     inventor, co-inventor of the bazooka
    Bazooka
    Bazooka is the common name for a man-portable recoilless rocket antitank weapon, widely fielded by the U.S. Army. Also referred to as the "Stovepipe", the innovative bazooka was amongst the first-generation of rocket propelled anti-tank weapons used in infantry combat...

    , heart failure. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-edward-uhl-20100515-19,0,2750193.story

8

  • Bruce Alford, Sr.
    Bruce Alford, Sr.
    Herbert Bruce Alford Sr. was an American football end in the National Football League for the New York Yanks. He also played football in the All-America Football Conference for the New York Yankees. Alford played college football at Texas Christian University...

    , 87, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     football
    American football
    American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

     player (New York Yanks
    New York Yanks
    The New York Yanks American football team played in the National Football League under that name in the 1950 and 1951 seasons. In 1949, Boston Yanks owner Ted Collins had requested the NFL to fold his Boston team and give him a new one in New York City...

    ), and line judge
    Official (American football)
    In American football, an official is a person who has responsibility in enforcing the rules and maintaining the order of the game.During professional and college football games, seven officials operate on the field...

    , cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dfw/obituary.aspx?n=h-bruce-alford&pid=142663433
  • Florrie Baldwin
    Florrie Baldwin
    Florence Emily Baldwin, née Davies was, at the time of her death, the oldest living person in the United Kingdom and Europe.-Biography:...

    , 114, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     supercentenarian
    Supercentenarian
    A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....

    , oldest person in Europe
    Europe
    Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

    . http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Florrie-Baldwin-Europe39s-oldest-person.6283739.jp
  • Shadreck Biemba
    Shadreck Biemba
    Mzansi Shadrack Biemba was a Zambian professional football player and coach.-Playing career:Biemba, who played as a goalkeeper, played club football in South Africa for AmaZulu, having previously played for Bloemfontein Celtic.Biemba also represented the Zambian national side, making 12...

    , 45, Zambia
    Zambia
    Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....

    n footballer, cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.morokaswallows.co.za/article.asp?id=348729
  • Joaquín Capilla
    Joaquín Capilla
    Joaquín Capilla Pérez born in Mexico City was a Mexican diver. He won the bronze medal in the platform diving event at the 1948 Olympic Games in London, England, the silver medal in the platform diving event again at the 1952 Olympic games in Helsinki, and the gold in the platform and the bronze...

    , 81, Mexican
    Mexico
    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

     Olympic
    Olympic Games
    The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

     diving
    Diving
    Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...

     four-time medalist, heart failure. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2010-05-09-3696732160_x.htm
  • Sir Cecil Clothier
    Cecil Clothier
    Sir Cecil Montacute 'Spike' Clothier KCB QC was a lawyer who served as a Judge of Appeal on the Isle of Man, and then as Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration and Health Service Commissioner for England, Scotland and Wales...

    , 90, Manx
    Isle of Man
    The Isle of Man , otherwise known simply as Mann , is a self-governing British Crown Dependency, located in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, within the British Isles. The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who holds the title of Lord of Mann. The Lord of Mann is...

     judge
    Judge
    A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as part of a panel of judges. The powers, functions, method of appointment, discipline, and training of judges vary widely across different jurisdictions. The judge is supposed to conduct the trial impartially and in an open...

     and public servant. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=cecil-clothier-spike&pid=142708566
  • Norm Ezell, 68, American musician, cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/lodinews/obituary.aspx?n=norman-glenn-ezell-norm&pid=142688362&fhid=2566
  • Andrew Hull
    Andrew Hull
    Andrew Hull was a Canadian born film maker, film director and architect. Born Andrew Mackenzie Hull, August 15, 1963, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada and died May 8, 2010 in London.-Early life:...

    , 46, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

    -born film maker, film director
    Film director
    A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

     and architect
    Architect
    An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

    , head injury due to cycling accident. http://www.cfccreates.com/about_us/announcements/item.php?id=item120
  • Andor Lilienthal
    Andor Lilienthal
    Andor Arnoldovich Lilienthal was a Hungarian and Soviet chess Grandmaster. In his long career, he played against ten male and female world champions, beating Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, and Vera Menchik...

    , 99, Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n-born Hungarian
    Hungary
    Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

     chess
    Chess
    Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

     grandmaster. http://hirzona.hu/2010/05/elhunyt-lilienthal-andor/ (Hungarian)
  • Peer Schmidt
    Peer Schmidt
    Peer Eugen Georg Schmidt was a German actor and voice actor. He is best known as the German voice of Gérard Philipe, Marlon Brando and Jean-Paul Belmondo.-Filmography:-References:...

    , 84, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

    , after long illness. http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/telegramm/news-ticker,rendertext=12477292.html (German)
  • Mark Shannon
    Mark Shannon
    Mark Shannon was a long-time conservative radio personality who lived in Edmond, Oklahoma....

    , 58, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     radio personality
    Radio personality
    A radio personality is a person with an on-air position in radio broadcasting. A radio personality can be someone who introduces and discusses various genres of music, hosts a talk radio show that may take calls from listeners, or someone whose primary responsibility is to give news, weather,...

     (KTOK
    KTOK
    KTOK is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Licensed to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, the station serves the Oklahoma City area. The station is owned by Clear Channel Broadcasting Licenses and features programing from ABC Radio, Premiere Radio Networks and Westwood One...

    ), lymphoid leukemia. http://www.ktok.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=119211&article=7092278
  • George Susce, 78, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     baseball
    Baseball
    Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

     player. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/news-press/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=142641616
  • Alan Watkins
    Alan Watkins
    Alan Rhun Watkins was for over 50 years a British political columnist in various London-based magazines and newspapers...

    , 77, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     political journalist, renal failure
    Renal failure
    Renal failure or kidney failure describes a medical condition in which the kidneys fail to adequately filter toxins and waste products from the blood...

    . http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/alan-watkins-doyen-of-political-commentators-dies-at-77-1969473.html

7

  • Francisco Aguabella
    Francisco Aguabella
    Francisco Aguabella was an Afro-Cuban jazz percussionist whose career began in the 1950s.-Biography:Aguabella was born in Matanzas, Cuba. In the 1950s, he left Cuba to perform with Katherine Dunham in the Shelley Winters film Mambo filmed in Italy...

    , 84, Cuba
    Cuba
    The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

    n-born American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     jazz percussionist, cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-francisco-aguabella-20100509,0,6419187.story
  • Rane Arroyo
    Rane Arroyo
    Rane Ramón Arroyo was an American poet, playwright, and scholar of Puerto Rican descent who wrote numerous books and received many literary awards. He was a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Toledo in Ohio. His work deals extensively with issues of immigration, Latino...

    , 55, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

    , cerebral hemorrhage. http://www.toledofreepress.com/2010/05/11/poet-rane-arroyo%E2%80%99s-death-a-%E2%80%98great-tragedy-and-loss%E2%80%99-2/
  • Anders Buraas
    Anders Buraas
    Anders von Tangen Buraas was a Norwegian journalist.He was born in Kristiania as a son of editor and attorney Carl Ludvig Buraas and Dagny von Tangen . He finished his secondary education at Oslo Commerce School in 1933, and was hired as an office clerk in the newspaper Aftenposten...

    , 94, Norwegian
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

     journalist
    Journalist
    A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

    . http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Anders_Buraas/utdypning (Norwegian)
  • Babz Chula
    Babz Chula
    Babz Chula was an American-born actress, permanent resident in Canada.-Life and career:Chula was born as Barbara Ellen Zuckerman in Springfield, Massachusetts. She was raised in Jamaica, New York...

    , 64, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     actress, cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Vancouver+actor+Babz+Chula+dead/3000688/story.html
  • Dave Fisher, 69, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     folk
    Folk music
    Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

     singer (The Highwaymen
    The Highwaymen (folk band)
    The Highwaymen were a circa 1960 "collegiate folk" group, which originated at Wesleyan University and had a Billboard number-one hit in 1961 with "Michael" and another Top 20 hit in 1962 with "Cottonfields"...

    ), myelofibrosis
    Myelofibrosis
    Myelofibrosis, also known as myeloid metaplasia, chronic idiopathic myelofibrosis, osteomyelofibrosis and primary myelofibrosis is a disorder of the bone marrow...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/arts/music/13fisher.html
  • Pamela Green
    Pamela Green
    Pamela Green was an English glamour model and actress, best known at the end of the 1950s and early 1960s...

    , 81, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     actress and model
    Model (person)
    A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....

    , leukemia
    Leukemia
    Leukemia or leukaemia is a type of cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal increase of immature white blood cells called "blasts". Leukemia is a broad term covering a spectrum of diseases...

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7126983.ece
  • Wally Hickel, 90, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , Secretary of the Interior
    United States Secretary of the Interior
    The United States Secretary of the Interior is the head of the United States Department of the Interior.The US Department of the Interior should not be confused with the concept of Ministries of the Interior as used in other countries...

     (1969–1970), Governor of Alaska (1966–1969, 1990–1994), natural causes
    Death by natural causes
    A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is one that is primarily attributed to natural agents: usually an illness or an internal malfunction of the body. For example, a person dying from complications from influenza or a heart attack ...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/us/09hickel.html
  • Billy Kelly
    Billy Kelly (boxer)
    Billy "Spider" Kelly was a boxer from Derry, Northern Ireland whose career highlight was winning the Commonwealth featherweight title in 1954. He went on to win the British featherweight title in 1955....

    , 78, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     boxer
    Boxing
    Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

    , after long illness. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/boxing/8669739.stm
  • Zoran Kurteš
    Zoran Kurteš
    Zoran Kurteš was a Serbian team handball player and coach.Zoran Kurteš died at the age of 44 after a cardiac arrest in Mamaia, Romania. At the time of his death he was the coach of HCM Constanţa, a team with excellent results during his stewardship...

    , 44, Serbia
    Serbia
    Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

    n handball
    Team handball
    Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

     player and coach, cardiac arrest
    Cardiac arrest
    Cardiac arrest, is the cessation of normal circulation of the blood due to failure of the heart to contract effectively...

    . http://www.prosport.ro/alte-sporturi/handbal/tragedie-in-handbal-antrenorul-lui-hcm-a-fost-gasit-mort-nu-ne-vine-sa-credem-6101043 (Romanian)
  • Adele Mara
    Adele Mara
    Adele Mara , born Adelaide Delgado, was an American actress, singer and dancer who appeared in films during the 1940s and 1950s. During the 1940s, the blond actress was also a popular pinup girl....

    , 87, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     actress (Sands of Iwo Jima
    Sands of Iwo Jima
    Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 war film that follows a group of United States Marines from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. It stars John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara and Forrest Tucker. The movie was written by Harry Brown and James Edward Grant and directed by Allan Dwan...

    ), natural causes
    Death by natural causes
    A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is one that is primarily attributed to natural agents: usually an illness or an internal malfunction of the body. For example, a person dying from complications from influenza or a heart attack ...

    . http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/afterword/2010/05/actress-adela-mara-dies-at-87.html
  • Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir
    Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir
    Fríða Áslaug Sigurðardóttir is an Icelandic novelist and short story writer. She made her literary debut in 1980, with the collection of short stories, Þetta er ekki alvarlegt...

    , 69, Iceland
    Iceland
    Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...

    ic author. http://www.bokmenntir.is/rithofundur.asp?cat_id=653&author_id=27&lang=8
  • Svetozar Stojanović
    Svetozar Stojanović
    Svetozar "Sveta" Stojanović was a Serbian philosopher and political theorist....

    , 78, Serbia
    Serbia
    Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

    n philosopher and political theorist. http://www.politika.rs/rubrike/Kultura/Preminuo-filozof-Svetozar-Stojanovic.lt.html (Serbian)
  • Flora L. Thornton
    Flora L. Thornton
    Flora Laney Thornton was the widow of Tex Thornton. She was known for her philanthropic activity in the Los Angeles area, including her support of the USC Thornton School of Music , the Keck School of Medicine of USC, Pepperdine University, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Los...

    , 96, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     arts patron
    Patronage
    Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another. In the history of art, arts patronage refers to the support that kings or popes have provided to musicians, painters, and sculptors...

     and philanthropist
    Philanthropy
    Philanthropy etymologically means "the love of humanity"—love in the sense of caring for, nourishing, developing, or enhancing; humanity in the sense of "what it is to be human," or "human potential." In modern practical terms, it is "private initiatives for public good, focusing on quality of...

    , pulmonary disease
    Pulmonology
    In medicine, pulmonology is the specialty that deals with diseases of the respiratory tract and respiratory disease. It is called chest medicine and respiratory medicine in some countries and areas...

    . http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-flora-thornton-20100508,0,6705455.story
  • Bert L. Vallee
    Bert L. Vallee
    Bert L. Vallee, M.D. was an Edgar M. Bronfman Distinguished Senior Professor at the Harvard Medical School. He was the founder and president of the Endowment and the CBBSM .-Life:Dr...

    , 90, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     professor
    Professor
    A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...

    . http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=bert-l-vallee&pid=142586620

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  • Hoàng Cầm, 88, Vietnam
    Vietnam
    Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

    ese poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

     and playwright
    Playwright
    A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

    . http://www.vietnamnet.vn/vanhoa/201005/Vinh-biet-nha-tho-Hoang-Cam-oanh-vang-Kinh-Bac-908240/ (Vietnamese)
  • Jaroslav Cardal
    Jaroslav Cardal
    Jaroslav Cardal was a Czechoslovakian cross country skier who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he finished eighth in the 50 km event in 1948 and 14th in the 50 km event in 1952....

    , 91, Czechoslovakia
    Czechoslovakia
    Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

    n Olympic
    Olympic Games
    The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

     cross-country skier
    Cross-country skiing
    Cross-country skiing is a winter sport in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles...

    . http://krkonossky.denik.cz/kratce_region/682445.html (Czech)
  • David E. Durston
    David E. Durston
    David E. Durston is an American screenwriter and film director best known for directing the Charles Manson-inspired cult classic drive-in horror exploitation film, I Drink Your Blood, which was released in 1970....

    , 88, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     film director
    Film director
    A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

     and screenwriter
    Screenwriter
    Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

     (I Drink Your Blood
    I Drink Your Blood
    I Drink Your Blood is a cult horror film originally released in 1970. The film was written and directed by David E. Durston, produced by Jerry Gross, and starred Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury and Lynn Lowry ....

    ), complications from pneumonia
    Pneumonia
    Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—especially affecting the microscopic air sacs —associated with fever, chest symptoms, and a lack of air space on a chest X-ray. Pneumonia is typically caused by an infection but there are a number of other causes...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/movies/23durston.html
  • Guillermo Meza
    Guillermo Meza
    Guillermo Ademir Meza Moreno was a Mexican soccer defender. He played with Pumas Morelos of Mexico's second division.-Career:Meza began his career in 2002 with UNAM Pumas and joined Pumas Morelos in 2007...

    , 21, Mexican
    Mexico
    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

     footballer (Pumas Morelos
    Pumas Morelos
    Pumas Morelos is a Mexican football club which plays in Coyoacán, Mexico City. They compete in the Liga de Ascenso division, and are the satellite team to Club Universidad Nacional.-Stadium:...

    ), shot
    Ballistic trauma
    The term ballistic trauma refers to a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions. The most common forms of ballistic trauma stem from firearms used in armed conflicts, civilian sporting and recreational pursuits, and criminal activity.-Destructive effects:The degree...

    . http://www.usatoday.com/sports/soccer/2010-05-07-1721190489_x.htm
  • Giacomo Neri
    Giacomo Neri
    Giacomo Neri was an Italian professional football player and coach.A right winger, Neri played a total 216 Serie A games, with 53 goals, throughout his career, and also played three games for the Italian national team, scoring a goal.He died in his home town of Faenza at the age of 94; he was the...

    , 94, Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     footballer. http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/regioni/emiliaromagna/2010/05/07/visualizza_new.html_1789478314.html (Italian)
  • Mildred Ellen Orton
    Mildred Ellen Orton
    Mildred Ellen Orton was an American businesswoman and author who co-founded the Vermont Country Store with her husband, Vrest Orton, in Weston, Vermont, in 1946....

    , 99, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     businesswoman, co-founder of the Vermont Country Store
    Vermont Country Store
    The Vermont Country Store, Inc. is an American catalogue, retail, and e-commerce business based in Vermont, with stores in Weston and Rockingham, company headquarters in Manchester, and a distribution facility and customer service center in North Clarendon, near Rutland...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/business/16orton.html
  • Robin Roberts, 83, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     baseball
    Baseball
    Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

     player (Philadelphia Phillies
    Philadelphia Phillies
    The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team. They are the oldest continuous, one-name, one-city franchise in all of professional American sports, dating to 1883. The Phillies are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League...

    ), Baseball Hall of Fame
    National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
    The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is an American history museum and hall of fame, located at 25 Main Street in Cooperstown, New York, operated by private interests serving as the central point for the study of the history of baseball in the United States and beyond, the display of...

     inductee, natural causes
    Death by natural causes
    A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is one that is primarily attributed to natural agents: usually an illness or an internal malfunction of the body. For example, a person dying from complications from influenza or a heart attack ...

    . http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100506&content_id=9840888&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
  • Robert J. Serling
    Robert J. Serling
    Robert Jerome Serling was an American novelist and aviation writer. Born in Cortland, New York, Serling graduated from Antioch College. He became full-time aviation editor for United Press International in 1960. His novel The President's Plane Is Missing was made into a 1973 made-for-TV film...

    , 92, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     author
    Author
    An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

    , brother of Rod Serling
    Rod Serling
    Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling was an American screenwriter, novelist, television producer, and narrator best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his science fiction anthology TV series, The Twilight Zone. Serling was active in politics, both on and off the screen and helped form...

    . http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tucson/obituary.aspx?n=robert-j-serling&pid=142587172
  • Dennis Sharp
    Dennis Sharp
    Dennis Sharp was a British architect, professor, curator, historian, author and editor.Dennis Sharp studied at Bedford Modern School and at Luton School of Art...

    , 76, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     architect
    Architect
    An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

    , cancer. http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/obituary-dennis-sharp/5217629.article

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  • Lucho Barrios
    Lucho Barrios
    Luis Barrios Rojas , better known as Lucho Barrios, was a popular Peruvian Bolero singer, well known throughout Latin America, and especially popular in Chile. He was also referred to as "Mr. Marabú"....

    , 76, Peru
    Peru
    Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

    vian bolero
    Bolero
    Bolero is a form of slow-tempo Latin music and its associated dance and song. There are Spanish and Cuban forms which are both significant and which have separate origins.The term is also used for some art music...

     singer. http://www.santiagotimes.cl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18776:peruvian-bolero-singer-luis-lucho-barrios-dead-at-75&catid=1:other&Itemid=38
  • Ray Blum
    Ray Blum
    Raymond Edward "Ray" Blum was an American speed skater who competed at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz. He placed 20th in the Men's 1500 metres competition in a field of 45 and 17th in the Men's 5000 metres event in a field of 40. He was born in Nutley, New Jersey and was a member of the...

    , 91, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     Olympic
    Olympic Games
    The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

     speed skater
    Speed skating
    Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...

    . http://obits.nj.com/obituaries/starledger/obituary.aspx?n=raymond-e-blum&pid=142545530
  • Marcello Costalunga
    Marcello Costalunga
    Marcello Costalunga was the Roman Catholic Titular Archbishop of Aquileia and an official of the Roman Curia.Born in Rome, he was ordained on 27 March 1948. Costalunga was appointed titular archbishop on 10 December 1990, and was ordained on 6 January 1991. Archbishop Costalunga retired on 25...

    , 85, Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     Roman Catholic prelate
    Prelate
    A prelate is a high-ranking member of the clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin prælatus, the past participle of præferre, which means "carry before", "be set above or over" or "prefer"; hence, a prelate is one set over others.-Related...

    , Titular Archbishop of Aquileia (1991–2001). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcosm.html
  • Joseph Kearney
    Joseph Kearney
    Dr. Joseph L. “Joe” Kearney was a renowned coach and sports administrator in university athletics.-Life and work:...

    , 83, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     athletic director
    Athletic director
    An athletic director is an administrator at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, who oversees the work of coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic programs...

    , pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer refers to a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas. The most common type of pancreatic cancer, accounting for 95% of these tumors is adenocarcinoma, which arises within the exocrine component of the pancreas. A minority arises from the islet cells and is classified as a...

    . http://www.foxsportsarizona.com/05/07/10/Former-ASU-AD-Joe-Kearney-dies-at-83/landing.html?blockID=230784&feedID=3702
  • Alfons Kontarsky
    Aloys and Alfons Kontarsky
    Aloys and Alfons Kontarsky were German duo-pianist brothers who were associated with a number of important world premieres of contemporary works. They had an international reputation for performing modern music for two pianists, although they also performed the standard repertoire and they...

    , 77, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     pianist
    Pianist
    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

    . http://www.drehpunktkultur.at/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1071:alfons-kontarsky-ist-gestorben&catid=115:meldungen-kritiken-2&Itemid=121 (German)
  • Armando Lucero
    Armando Lucero
    Armando Lucero was an Argentine man arrested in 2009 on charges of raping one of his daughters over a period of 17 years. He was alleged to have fathered seven children with her, and also to have raped two of his other daughters...

    , 68, Argentine
    Argentina
    Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

     sex offender
    Sex offender
    A sex offender is a person who has committed a sex crime. What constitutes a sex crime differs by culture and by legal jurisdiction. Most jurisdictions compile their laws into sections such as traffic, assault, sexual, etc. The majority of convicted sex offenders have convictions for crimes of a...

    , respiratory infection. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8665522.stm
  • Jack MacDonald
    Jack MacDonald (Hamilton politician)
    John A. "Jack" MacDonald was a politician, businessman, and journalist in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He served as Mayor of Hamilton from 1976 to 1980, and wrote a column in the Hamilton Spectator newspaper for many years....

    , 82, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , Mayor
    Mayor
    In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....

     of Hamilton, Ontario
    Hamilton, Ontario
    Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...

     (1977–1980), after long illness. http://www.stoneycreeknews.com/news/article/209712
  • Max Palevsky
    Max Palevsky
    Max Palevsky was an American art collector, venture capitalist, philanthropist, and computer technology pioneer.-Early life:...

    , 85, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     entrepreneur
    Entrepreneur
    An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...

    , philanthropist
    Philanthropist
    A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, and/or reputation to charitable causes...

     and art collector. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-0506-max-palevsky-20100506,0,5625708.story
  • Harry Siljander, 87, Finnish
    Finland
    Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

     Olympic
    Olympic Games
    The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

     bronze medal-winning (1952
    1952 Summer Olympics
    The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Helsinki, Finland in 1952. Helsinki had been earlier given the 1940 Summer Olympics, which were cancelled due to World War II...

    ) boxer
    Boxing
    Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

    . http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/si/harry-siljander-1.html
  • Giulietta Simionato
    Giulietta Simionato
    Giulietta Simionato was an Italian mezzo-soprano. Her career spanned from the 1930s until her retirement in 1966.-Life:Born at Forlì, Romagna, she studied in Rovigo and Padua, and made her operatic debut at Montagnana in 1928...

    , 99, Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     mezzo-soprano
    Mezzo-soprano
    A mezzo-soprano is a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above...

     singer. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/05/AR2010050505001.html
  • Gwyn Thomas
    Gwyn Thomas (reporter)
    Gwyn "Jocko" Thomas was a crime reporter with CFRB and the Toronto Star.Born in Toronto, Thomas began his news career as a newsboy at the corner of Bathurst Street and Bloor Street in 1925. After one year of high school, Thomas was hired by the Toronto Star as a copyboy in 1929...

    , 96, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     crime reporter (Toronto Star
    Toronto Star
    The Toronto Star is Canada's highest-circulation newspaper, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its print edition is distributed almost entirely within the province of Ontario...

    ), natural causes
    Death by natural causes
    A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is one that is primarily attributed to natural agents: usually an illness or an internal malfunction of the body. For example, a person dying from complications from influenza or a heart attack ...

    . http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/05/06/jocko-thomas.html
  • Umaru Yar'Adua, 58, Nigeria
    Nigeria
    Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

    n politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , President
    President of Nigeria
    The President of Nigeria is the Head of State and head of the national executive. Officially styled President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces. The current President of Nigeria is Goodluck Jonathan.-History:On October 1, 1960, Nigeria gained...

     (2007–2010), after long illness. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8663824.stm

4

  • David E. Apter
    David E. Apter
    David Ernest Apter was an American political scientist. He was Henry J Heinz Professor Emeritus of Comparative Political and Social Development and Senior Research Scientist at Yale University.He was born on December 18, 1924...

    , 85, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     political scientist, complications of cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/world/10apter.html
  • Brita Borg
    Brita Borg
    Brita Borg, full name Brita Kerstin Gunvor Borg was a Swedish singer, actress, and variety show artist. Her variety show career spanned from 1943 into the 1970s, while her singing career trailed away at the end of the 1960s. However, she was still an active actress in the 1980s...

    , 83, Swedish
    Sweden
    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

     actress, singer and variety show
    Variety show
    A variety show, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is an entertainment made up of a variety of acts, especially musical performances and sketch comedy, and normally introduced by a compère or host. Other types of acts include magic, animal and circus acts, acrobatics, juggling...

     artist. http://www.eurovisionary.com/eurovision-news/memory-brita-borg-1926-2010
  • Danny Chandler
    Danny Chandler
    Danny "Magoo" Chandler was a professional motocross racer. He is remembered for his hard-charging, aggressive riding style....

    , 50, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     motocross
    Motocross
    Motocross is a form of motorcycle sport or all-terrain vehicle racing held on enclosed off road circuits. It evolved from trials, and was called scrambles, and later motocross, combining the French moto with cross-country...

     champion
    Champion
    A champion is the victor in a challenge, contest or competition.There can be a territorial pyramid of championships, e.g. local, regional / provincial, state, national, continental and world championships, and even further divisions at one or more of these levels, as in soccer. Their champions...

    , complications from paralysis
    Paralysis
    Paralysis is loss of muscle function for one or more muscles. Paralysis can be accompanied by a loss of feeling in the affected area if there is sensory damage as well as motor. A study conducted by the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, suggests that about 1 in 50 people have been diagnosed...

    . http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/5/6855/Motorcycle-Article/Danny-Magoo-Chandler-Dies-at-Age-50.aspx
  • Ángel Cristo
    Ángel Cristo
    Ángel Cristo Dordi was a Spanish circus performer.On 3 May 2010 he was admitted to the University Hospital of Alcorcón after suffering multiple cardiac arrests. He died on 4 May as a result of a final heart attack.-Notes:...

    , 65, Spanish
    Spain
    Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

     animal tamer and circus
    Circus
    A circus is commonly a travelling company of performers that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented artists...

     promoter, cardiac arrest
    Cardiac arrest
    Cardiac arrest, is the cessation of normal circulation of the blood due to failure of the heart to contract effectively...

    . http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704370704575228220104460924.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines
  • Sheena Duncan
    Sheena Duncan
    Sheena Duncan was a South African anti-Apartheid activist and counselor. Duncan was the leader of Black Sash, a group of white, middle-class South African women who offered support to black South Africans and advocated the non-violent abolishment of the Apartheid system...

    , 77, South Africa
    South Africa
    The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

    n anti-apartheid
    Internal resistance to South African apartheid
    Internal resistance to the apartheid system in South Africa came from several sectors of society and saw the creation of organisations dedicated variously to peaceful protests, passive resistance and armed insurrection. It came from both black activists like Steve Biko and Desmond Tutu as well as...

     campaigner, leader of Black Sash
    Black Sash
    The Black Sash was a non-violent white women's resistance organization founded in 1955 in South Africa by Jean Sinclair. The Black Sash initially campaigned against the removal of Coloured or mixed race voters from the voters' roll in the Cape Province by the National Party government...

    , after long illness. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/08/world/africa/08duncan.html
  • Ernie Harwell
    Ernie Harwell
    William Earnest "Ernie" Harwell was an American sportscaster, known for his long career calling play-by-play of Major League Baseball games. For 55 years, 42 of them with the Detroit Tigers, Harwell called the action on radio and/or television...

    , 92, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     baseball
    Baseball
    Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

     sportscaster
    Sportscaster
    In sports broadcasting, a commentator gives a running commentary of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast. The comments are normally a voiceover, with the sounds of the action and spectators also heard in the background. In the case of television commentary, the commentator...

     (Detroit Tigers
    Detroit Tigers
    The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League. The Tigers have won four World Series championships and have won the American League pennant...

    ), cholangiocarcinoma
    Cholangiocarcinoma
    Cholangiocarcinoma is a cancer of the bile ducts which drain bile from the liver into the small intestine. Other biliary tract cancers include pancreatic cancer, gallbladder cancer, and cancer of the ampulla of Vater...

    . http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5163285
  • Peter Heathfield
    Peter Heathfield
    Peter Heathfield was a British trade unionist who was general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers between 1984 and 1992, including the period of the miners' strike of 1984/85....

    , 81, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     trade union
    Trade union
    A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...

    ist. http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/89951
  • Freddy Kottulinsky
    Freddy Kottulinsky
    Winfried Philippe Adalbert Karl Graf Kottulinsky Freiherr von Kottulin, better known as Freddy Kottulinsky , was a German-Swedish racing and rallying driver who won the Paris-Dakar Rally in 1980. He was born in München....

    , 77, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

    -born Swedish
    Sweden
    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

     racing driver. http://www.fourtitude.com/news/publish/Motorsport_News/article_5924.shtml
  • William Lubtchansky
    William Lubtchansky
    William Lubtchansky born in Paris, France, was an acclaimed French cinematographer. His first film was Agnes Varda's 1965 short, Elsa la Rose. Lubtchansky has shot over 100 films, including several for Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, Jean Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet and Nadine Trintignant...

    , 73, French
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

     cinematographer
    Cinematographer
    A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image...

    , heart disease
    Heart disease
    Heart disease, cardiac disease or cardiopathy is an umbrella term for a variety of diseases affecting the heart. , it is the leading cause of death in the United States, England, Canada and Wales, accounting for 25.4% of the total deaths in the United States.-Types:-Coronary heart disease:Coronary...

    . http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2010/05/in-memoriam-william-lubtchansky.html
  • Denis Obua
    Denis Obua
    Denis Obua was a former Ugandan soccer player and administrator, who played on the left-wing for Uganda between 1968 and 1977 and later served as President of the Federation of Uganda Football Associations and chairman of the Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations .-Club...

    , 62, Uganda
    Uganda
    Uganda , officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is also known as the "Pearl of Africa". It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by...

    n footballer. http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8437&Itemid=80
  • Luigi Poggi
    Luigi Poggi
    Luigi Poggi was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.-Early life:Born in Piacenza, Poggi did all his studies prior to priestly ordination in that city and was sent to Rome in 1944 primarily to study diplomacy at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy...

    , 92, Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal
    Cardinal (Catholicism)
    A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...

    . http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/holy_father_recalls_late_cardinals_priestly_zeal_ability_to_grow_the_church/
  • Joan Rendell
    Joan Rendell
    Joan Rendell MBE was a Cornish historian, writer and phillumenist. For most of her life her home was at Werrington. She was the daughter of Gervase Rendell, of St Austell....

    , 89, British writer. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/8661860.stm
  • Nick Rogers
    Nick Rogers (American football)
    Nicholas Quixote "Nick" Rogers was an American football linebacker for the National Football League and the Arena Football League...

    , 30, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     football
    American football
    American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

     player (Minnesota Vikings
    Minnesota Vikings
    The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings joined the National Football League as an expansion team in 1960...

    ), auto accident. http://www.ajc.com/news/former-tech-great-nick-517945.html?cxtype=rss_news_128746
  • Dustin Shuler
    Dustin Shuler
    Dustin Shuler was an American sculptor, best known for a 1989 piece called the Spindle, which consisted of a 50 foot spike with eight cars impaled on it.Shuler was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, on August 17, 1948...

    , 61, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     sculptor (Spindle
    Spindle (sculpture)
    Spindle was a sculpture created in 1989 by artist Dustin Shuler . It consisted of a 50 foot spike with eight cars impaled on it. From 1989 until its demolition on May 2, 2008, it was located in the car park of Cermak Plaza shopping center, at the corner of Cermak Road and Harlem Avenue in Berwyn,...

    ), pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer refers to a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas. The most common type of pancreatic cancer, accounting for 95% of these tumors is adenocarcinoma, which arises within the exocrine component of the pancreas. A minority arises from the islet cells and is classified as a...

    . http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Car-Kebob-Artist-Dies-93383569.htmlhttp://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dustin-shuler-20100512,0,7503444.story
  • Hadi Soesastro
    Hadi Soesastro
    Hadi Soesastro was an Indonesian economist, academic and public intellectual. He was one of the founders of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies , a think tank founded in 1971, where he served as an executive director and economist...

    , 65, Indonesia
    Indonesia
    Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

    n economist
    Economist
    An economist is a professional in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy...

     and intellectual
    Intellectual
    An intellectual is a person who uses intelligence and critical or analytical reasoning in either a professional or a personal capacity.- Terminology and endeavours :"Intellectual" can denote four types of persons:...

    , founder of the CSIS, brain hemorrhage. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/05/05/one-indonesia%E2%80%99s-best-minds-hadi-soesastro-dies-65.html
  • El Supremo
    El Supremo (wrestler)
    Salvador Cuevas Ramírez was a Mexican Luchador, or professional wrestler, known under the ring name El Supremo. Cuevas was originally an enmascarado but lost his mask in 1992 to Pierroth, Jr.....

    , 59, Mexican
    Mexico
    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

     professional wrestler
    Professional wrestling
    Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...

    , heart attack. http://yesbuthowever.com/rip-el-supremo-8138848/

3

  • Mohammed Abed al-Jabri
    Mohammed Abed al-Jabri
    Mohammed Abed Al-Jabri was a contemporary Moroccan critic and professor of philosophy and Islamic thought in Mohammed V University in Rabat. He was also an expert in Arabic and Arabic literature. He is considered to have been one of the major intellectual figures in the contemporary Arab world. He...

    , 73, Moroccan
    Morocco
    Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

     philosopher
    Philosophy
    Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

     and writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

    . http://www.habibtoumi.com/2010/05/04/distinguished-moroccan-philosopher-mohammed-abed-al-jabri-has-died/
  • Luigi Amaducci
    Luigi Amaducci
    Luigi Amaducci was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ravenna-Cervia, Italy.-Episcopacy:...

    , 86, Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     Roman Catholic prelate
    Prelate
    A prelate is a high-ranking member of the clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin prælatus, the past participle of præferre, which means "carry before", "be set above or over" or "prefer"; hence, a prelate is one set over others.-Related...

    , Archbishop
    Archbishop
    An archbishop is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest , and bishop...

     of Ravenna-Cervia
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ravenna-Cervia
    The Archdiocese of Ravenna-Cervia is a metropolitan archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. The cathedral of the archdiocese is the Cathedral Basilica of the Resurrection of Our Lord in Ravenna; the Cathedral of Saint Peter in Cervia is the co-cathedral of...

     (1990–2000). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bamaducci.html
  • Charles C. Barham
    Charles C. Barham
    Charles Clem "Charlie" Barham was an attorney in private practice for thirty-nine years in Ruston, Louisiana, and a Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate from District 35, nonconsecutively, from 1964 to 1972 and 1976 to 1988.He was the older son of Lieutenant Governor C.E...

    , 75, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , Louisiana State Senator
    Louisiana State Legislature
    The Louisiana State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is bicameral body, comprising the lower house, the Louisiana House of Representatives with 105 representatives, and the upper house, the Louisiana Senate with 39 senators...

     (1964–1972, 1976–1988), cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20100504/UPDATES01/100504023/Charles-Barham-former-state-senator-dead-at-76
  • Kirt Bennett
    Kirt Bennett
    Kirt Bruce Bennett was an African-American Republican political activist, businessman, and educational leader in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.-Early years:...

    , 42, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     businessman
    Businessperson
    A businessperson is someone involved in a particular undertaking of activities for the purpose of generating revenue from a combination of human, financial, or physical capital. An entrepreneur is an example of a business person...

    , stroke
    Stroke
    A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...

    . http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=kirt-bruce-bennett&pid=142542604
  • Florencio Campomanes
    Florencio Campomanes
    Florencio Campomanes was a Filipino political scientist, chess player, and chess organizer.- Education :...

    , 83, Filipino
    Philippines
    The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

     chess player, President of FIDE (1982–1995). http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/former-fide-president-campomanes-dies-at-83/
  • Bill Clement
    Bill Clement (politician)
    Bill Clement was a Canadian politician, who represented the Charleswood-Tuxedo ward on Winnipeg City Council from 1983 to 2010. Clement was a partner in his family business, Aqua Pleasure Pools...

    , 61, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , Winnipeg City Council
    Winnipeg City Council
    The Winnipeg City Council is the governing body of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.Members represent wards throughout the city, and are known as councillors.-2006-2010:Council elected in the 2006 election:-2010-2014:...

    man since 1983. http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Veteran-councillor-Bill-Clement-dies-92735144.html
  • Stefan Doernberg, 85, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

     and teacher
    Teacher
    A teacher or schoolteacher is a person who provides education for pupils and students . The role of teacher is often formal and ongoing, carried out at a school or other place of formal education. In many countries, a person who wishes to become a teacher must first obtain specified professional...

    . http://www.jungewelt.de/2010/05-04/013.php (German)
  • Jack Friedman, 70, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     businessman
    Businessperson
    A businessperson is someone involved in a particular undertaking of activities for the purpose of generating revenue from a combination of human, financial, or physical capital. An entrepreneur is an example of a business person...

    , co-founder of Jakks Pacific
    Jakks Pacific
    JAKKS Pacific, Inc. is a designer and marketer of toys and consumer products, with a range of products that feature numerous children's toy licenses...

    . http://www.marketwatch.com/story/jakks-pacific-founder-chairman-jack-friedman-dies-2010-05-03?reflink=MW_news_stmp
  • Jimmy Gardner
    Jimmy Gardner (British actor)
    Edward Charles James "Jimmy" Gardner, DFM was a British actor. He is perhaps best known for having played Knight Bus driver Ernie Prang in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third film adaptation of the Harry Potter books. His first appearance was in The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb in 1964...

    , 85, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     character actor
    Character actor
    A character actor is one who predominantly plays unusual or eccentric characters. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a character actor as "an actor who specializes in character parts", defining character part in turn as "an acting role displaying pronounced or unusual characteristics or...

    . http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jimmy-gardner-war-hero-and-actor-whose-roles-ranged-from-gravedigger-in-the-rscs-hamlet-to-a-bus-driver-in-harry-potter-1964258.html
  • Karl Kasten
    Karl Kasten
    Karl Albert Kasten was a painter-printmaker-educator in the San Francisco Bay Area.- Early life :Kasten, fourth child of Ferdinand Kasten and his wife Barbara Anna Kasten, grew up in San Francisco's Richmond District not far from the peacocks at Golden Gate Park...

    , 94, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

    . http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2010/05/12_karl_kasten.shtml
  • Stephen Ledogar
    Stephen Ledogar
    Stephen Joseph Ledogar was a United States ambassador and diplomat.Born in New York City, Ledogar served in the United States Navy and graduated from Fordham University, where he later received his law degree. Ledogar drafted three international arms control treatries and served in three different...

    , 80, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     arms control
    Arms control
    Arms control is an umbrella term for restrictions upon the development, production, stockpiling, proliferation, and usage of weapons, especially weapons of mass destruction...

     negotiator, bladder cancer
    Bladder cancer
    Bladder cancer is any of several types of malignant growths of the urinary bladder. It is a disease in which abnormal cells multiply without control in the bladder. The bladder is a hollow, muscular organ that stores urine; it is located in the pelvis...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/us/10ledogar.html
  • Merv McIntosh
    Merv McIntosh
    Mervyn Francis "Merv" McIntosh was an Australian rules footballer in the West Australian National Football League...

    , 87, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n football
    Australian rules football
    Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

     player, heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://www.watoday.com.au/afl/afl-news/wa-football-great-dies-20100504-u4dv.html
  • Peter O'Donnell
    Peter O'Donnell
    Peter O'Donnell was a British writer of mysteries and of comic strips, best known as the creator of Modesty Blaise, a female action hero/undercover trouble-shooter/enforcer...

    , 90, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

     (Modesty Blaise
    Modesty Blaise
    Modesty Blaise is a British comic strip featuring a fictional character of the same name, created by Peter O'Donnell and Jim Holdaway in 1963. The strip follows the adventures of Modesty Blaise, an exceptional young woman with many talents and a criminal past, and her trusty sidekick Willie Garvin...

    ). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7116066.ece
  • Kinji Shibuya
    Kinji Shibuya
    Kinji Shibuya was an American professional wrestler and actor.-Professional wrestling career:In 1952, promoter Al Karasick suggested Shibuya try professional wrestling. He was originally given a villainous gimmick of a Japanese bad guy after World War II. He wrestled in the United States and...

    , 88, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     professional wrestler and actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

     (Mr. T and Tina
    Mr. T and Tina
    Mr. T and Tina is an American sitcom that aired for five episodes on ABC in the fall of 1976. Starring Pat Morita, the series was a spin-off of the then-hit series Welcome Back, Kotter...

    ), natural causes
    Death by natural causes
    A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is one that is primarily attributed to natural agents: usually an illness or an internal malfunction of the body. For example, a person dying from complications from influenza or a heart attack ...

    . http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2010/05/08/13880381.html
  • Guenter Wendt
    Guenter Wendt
    Günter F. Wendt was a German-American engineer noted for his work in the U.S. manned spaceflight program. An employee of McDonnell Aircraft and later North American Aviation, he was in charge of the spacecraft close-out crews at the launch pads for the entire Mercury and Gemini programs , and the...

    , 85, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

    -born American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     spacecraft
    Spacecraft
    A spacecraft or spaceship is a craft or machine designed for spaceflight. Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications, earth observation, meteorology, navigation, planetary exploration and transportation of humans and cargo....

     engineer
    Engineer
    An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, machines and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality,...

     (NASA
    NASA
    The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...

     ), heart failure and stroke
    Stroke
    A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...

    . http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-050310a.html

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  • Ann Aldrich
    Ann Aldrich
    Ann Aldrich was a United States federal judge.Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Aldrich received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1948 and an LL.B. from the New York University School of Law in 1950. She also attended the University of Geneva, Switzerland, Institut des Hautes Etudes...

    , 82, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     jurist
    Jurist
    A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage...

    . http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/news_article.aspx?storyid=135333&catid=3
  • Kama Chinen
    Kama Chinen
    was a Japanese supercentenarian, who at the age of 114 years 357 days, became the oldest validated living person when American supercentenarian Gertrude Baines died on 11 September 2009. At the age of 114 years 331 days, she became the last person born in 1895 when American supercentenarian Neva...

    , 114, Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

    ese supercentenarian
    Supercentenarian
    A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....

    , verified oldest living person
    Oldest people
    This is a list of tables of the verified oldest people in the world in ordinal rank, such as oldest person or oldest man. In these tables, a supercentenarian is considered 'verified' if his or her claim has been validated by an international body that specifically deals in longevity research, such...

     and last surviving person documented as born in 1895. http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/health/2010/05/04/2010-05-04_worlds_oldest_person_kama_chinen_of_japan_dies_at_age_114.html
  • Moshe Hirsch
    Moshe Hirsch
    Moshe Hirsch was the leader of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta group in Jerusalem. He advised Yasser Arafat on Jewish affairs and visited him in Ramallah...

    , 86, Israel
    Israel
    The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

    i Neturei Karta
    Neturei Karta
    Neturei Karta is a Haredi Jewish group formally created in Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine, in 1938, splitting off from Agudas Yisroel...

     rabbi
    Rabbi
    In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew word רבי , meaning "My Master" , which is the way a student would address a master of Torah...

     and anti-Zionist, Palestinian National Authority
    Palestinian National Authority
    The Palestinian Authority is the administrative organization established to govern parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip...

     Minister for Jewish Affairs, after long illness. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/world/middleeast/05hirsch.html
  • André Lamy
    André Lamy
    André Lamy was a Canadian film producer, who served as Canada's Government Film Commissioner from 1975 until 1979. In this position he was the Chairman of the National Film Board of Canada ....

    , 77, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     film producer
    Film producer
    A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

    , after long illness. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2010/05/05/andre-lamy-obituary.html
  • Andrew McFarlane
    Andrew McFarlane (motocross racer)
    Andrew McFarlane was an Australian motocross racer who died of injuries sustained on 2 May 2010 in an accident during a practice lap at the third round of the 2010 Australian Motocross Championship at Broadford held on State Motorcycle Sports Complex in Broadford, north of Melbourne, Australia. He...

    , 32, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n motocross
    Motocross
    Motocross is a form of motorcycle sport or all-terrain vehicle racing held on enclosed off road circuits. It evolved from trials, and was called scrambles, and later motocross, combining the French moto with cross-country...

     racer, accident during practice. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/02/2888116.htm
  • Bohumil Němeček
    Bohumil Nemecek
    Bohumil Němeček was a Czechoslovak welterweight boxer, who won the Light Welterweight Gold Medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics.-References:* *...

    , 72, Czech
    Czech Republic
    The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

     boxer
    Boxing
    Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

    , Olympic
    Olympic Games
    The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

     gold medalist (1960
    1960 Summer Olympics
    The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held from August 25 to September 11, 1960 in Rome, Italy...

    ). http://www.saddoboxing.com/boxing_news/38214-olympic-boxing-champion-bohumil-nemecek-dies-at-72-the-associated-press.html
  • Murray Nicoll
    Murray Nicoll
    Murray Nicoll was an Australian journalist and broadcaster whose career spanned more than 45 years. He was best known for providing reports on 5DN radio from his own burning home during the Ash Wednesday fires of 1983...

    , 66, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n journalist
    Journalist
    A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

     and broadcaster
    Presenter
    A presenter, or host , is a person or organization responsible for running an event. A museum or university, for example, may be the presenter or host of an exhibit. Likewise, a master of ceremonies is a person that hosts or presents a show...

    , Ash Wednesday fires
    Ash Wednesday fires
    The Ash Wednesday bushfires, known in South Australia as Ash Wednesday II, were a series of bushfires that occurred in south-eastern Australia on 16 February 1983. Within twelve hours, more than 180 fires fanned by winds of up to 110 km per hour caused widespread destruction across the states...

     commentator, leukaemia. http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/tv/cancer-claims-veteran-journalist-murray-nicol/story-e6freeul-1225861536262
  • Lynn Redgrave
    Lynn Redgrave
    Lynn Rachel Redgrave, OBE was an English actress.A member of the well-known British family of actors, Redgrave trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962...

    , 67, English
    England
    England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

     actress (Georgy Girl
    Georgy Girl
    Georgy Girl is a 1966 British film based on a novel by Margaret Forster. The film was directed by Silvio Narizzano and starred Lynn Redgrave as Georgy, Alan Bates, James Mason, Charlotte Rampling and Bill Owen....

    , Gods and Monsters
    Gods and Monsters
    Gods and Monsters is a 1998 drama film that recounts the last days of the life of troubled film director James Whale, whose homosexuality is a central theme. It stars Ian McKellen as Whale, along with Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave, Lolita Davidovich, and David Dukes...

    ), breast cancer
    Breast cancer
    Breast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...

    . http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=10539650

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  • Danny Aiello III
    Danny Aiello III
    Danny Aiello III was a stunt performer, stunt coordinator, director, and actor in film and television. He was the son of actor Danny Aiello.-Death:...

    , 53, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     stunt performer
    Stunt performer
    A stuntman, or daredevil is someone who performs dangerous stunts, often as a career.These stunts are sometimes rigged so that they look dangerous while still having safety mechanisms, but often they are as dangerous as they appear to be...

    , pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer refers to a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas. The most common type of pancreatic cancer, accounting for 95% of these tumors is adenocarcinoma, which arises within the exocrine component of the pancreas. A minority arises from the islet cells and is classified as a...

    . http://www.northjersey.com/obituaries/92647484_Danny_Aiello_III_dies__actor_s_son__stuntman.html
  • T. M. Aluko
    T. M. Aluko
    Timothy Mofolorunso "T. M." Aluko was a Nigerian writer.A Yoruba, Aluko was born in Ilesha in Nigeria and studied at Government College, Ibadan, and Higher College, Yaba in Lagos. He then studied civil engineering and town planning at the University of London...

    , 91, Nigeria
    Nigeria
    Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

    n writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

    . http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5562814-146/t.m_aluko_is_dead__.csp
  • Don Caruth
    Don Caruth
    Donald T. "Don" Caruth was the minority leader of the West Virginia Senate and a former member of the West Virginia House of Delegates. He represented the 10th district, serving with Jesse O. Guills...

    , 59, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , minority leader
    Minority leader
    In U.S. politics, the minority leader is the floor leader of the second largest caucus in a legislative body. Given the two-party nature of the U.S. system, the minority leader is almost inevitably either a Republican or a Democrat, with their counterpart being of the opposite party. The position...

     of the West Virginia Senate
    West Virginia Senate
    The West Virginia Senate is the upper house of the West Virginia Legislature.There are 17 senatorial districts. Each district has two senators who serve staggered four-year terms....

    , brain cancer. http://www.wvmetronews.com/index.cfm?func=displayfullstory&storyid=36836
  • Jean-Louis Dumas
    Jean-Louis Dumas
    Jean-Louis Dumas was a French businessman who served as the chairman of the Hermès group from 1978 until 2006. He also served as the company's artistic director. Dumas is credited with turning Hermès into a global luxury brand during his tenure as chairman.Dumas' family founded Hermès in 1837...

    , 72, French
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

     businessman, Hermès
    Hermès
    Hermès International S.A., or simply Hermès is a French high fashion house established in 1837, today specializing in leather, lifestyle accessories, perfumery, luxury goods, and ready-to-wear...

     group chairman (1978–2006). http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/longtime-hermes-luxury-group-boss-dies-1960807.html
  • Antoine Hayek
    Antoine Hayek
    Antoine Hayek was a Roman Catholic bishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church and was archbishop of the Archdiocese of Baniyas....

    , 81, Lebanese
    Lebanon
    Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...

     Melkite Greek Catholic
    Melkite Greek Catholic Church
    The Melkite Greek Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See as part of the worldwide Catholic Church. The Melkites, Byzantine Rite Catholics of mixed Eastern Mediterranean and Greek origin, trace their history to the early Christians of Antioch, Syria, of...

     prelate
    Prelate
    A prelate is a high-ranking member of the clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin prælatus, the past participle of præferre, which means "carry before", "be set above or over" or "prefer"; hence, a prelate is one set over others.-Related...

    , Archbishop
    Archbishop
    An archbishop is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest , and bishop...

     of Baniyas
    Baniyas
    Baniyas is a city of northwestern Syria, located at the foot of the hill of Qalaat el-Marqab , 55 km to the south of Latakia and 35 km north of Tartous , and a Catholic titular see under the Latin name of Balanea, which is presently vacant.It is famous for its orchards...

     (1989–2006). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bhayek.html
  • Vytautas Janulionis
    Vytautas Janulionis
    Vytautas Janulionis was a Lithuanian glass artist. He was born in Klaipėda.In 1969-1976, he studied at M. K. Čiurlionis secondary art school. He graduated from the Art Institute in Tallinn, in 1981...

    , 52, Lithuania
    Lithuania
    Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

    n glass artist. http://www.kamane.lt/lt/naujienos/daile/dnaujiena1712 (Lithuanian)
  • Zygmunt Kamiński
    Zygmunt Kamiński
    Zygmunt Kamiński was the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Szczecin-Kamień, Poland....

    , 77, Polish
    Poland
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     Roman Catholic prelate
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    , Archbishop
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     of Szczecin-Kamień (1999–2009). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bkaminski.html
  • Dragan Kujović
    Dragan Kujović
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    , Montenegrin
    Montenegro
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     politician
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    , President (2003). http://www.vijece-crnogoraca-zagreb.hr/novosti/2010/in-memoriam--dragan-kujovic.aspx (Croatian)
  • Rob McConnell
    Rob McConnell
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    , 75, Canadian
    Canada
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     jazz
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     musician
    Musician
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    , cancer
    Cancer
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    . http://www.ejazznews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=11273&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
  • Lawrence Paul
    Lawrence Paul
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    , 84, Canadian
    Canada
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     Mi'kmaq tribe leader, chief of the Membertou First Nation (1967–1969). http://www.ngnews.ca/Canada---World/News/2010-05-03/article-1050807/Lawrence-Paul,-Nova-Scotia-Mi%26rsquo%3Bkmaq-leader-and-pioneer,-dies-at-age-84/1
  • Helen Wagner
    Helen Wagner
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    , 91, American
    United States
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     actress (As the World Turns
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    ). http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/wire/sns-ap-us-obit-helen-wagner,0,4492589.story
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